DAVID BLIGHT
FREDERICK DOUGLASS: PROPHET OF FREEDOM (2018)
Winnter of the Plutarch Award.
Frederick Douglass (born 1818) was a leading figure in the American anti-slavery campaign. He escaped from slavery in Maryland at the age of 20, becoming a highly influential writer and speaker. His book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845, became a bestseller.
The New Yorker described David Blight’s biography of Douglass as ‘Extraordinary … a great American biography’.
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David Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History and African American studies at Yatle University. He previously taught at Amherst College for 13 years. Blight attended Michigan Statue University, graduaring in History. He went on to take an MA degree in Ameerican History, and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
