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Merle Curti Lecture Series: "Writing the Life of Frederick Douglass: Why and Why Now?"

October 26

David Blight will give the annual Merle Curti Lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 26-28. His lectures will include "Childhood of 'Extremes' and 'Baltimore Dreams': Slave Youth" on October 26; "'By the Rivers of Babylon': Words, the Bible, and the the Mid-Life Radical" on October 27; and "'Joys and Sorrows' at Cedar Hill: Old Age, Family, and Fame" on October 28.

For more information: http://www.davidwblight.com/david-w-blight-slavery-civil-rights-events/2016/9/10/38qvhago7fbnuq6hhv3g84tgfugzck

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Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom (WGBHForum, Atlanta, Georgia)

November 15, 2007 in Speeches •

David Blight discusses his latest work Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom. His new book includes previously unpublished narratives from two former slaves, offering readers a poignant, painful story of lives at once heroic and inspiring.