David Blight talked about his book [A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation, published by Harcourt. He spoke briefly about the history of emancipation in America.
Read More"What struck me most clearly about David Blight's magnificent new book A Slave No More, which I recently reviewed, was just how close to us the nefarious effects of slavery remain."
Read MoreDavid Blight on Slave Narratives, by Coy Barefoot. • "Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving with only a handful of those in the first-person.
Read More"The chaos of Civil War meant only one thing to America's four million slaves: hope. With armies on the march, and the old social order crumbling,
Read MoreDavid 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 His new book includes previously unpublished narratives from two former slaves, offering readers a poignant, painful story of lives at once heroic and inspiring.
"In American mythology, the freeing of the slaves is a top-to-bottom affair: Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1862,
Read More"For many years historians in the United States, even scholars who challenged the relatively benign view of slavery and harsh view of Reconstruction that dominated the academy until at least the 1950s,
Read MoreModerated by Professor Blight, a panel of black scholars from history, law, linguistics, and business discussed the nature of historical justice in regard to slavery in the United States and how America should respond to its support of slavery during its founding and over several generations.
Read MoreDavid Blight, author of "When this Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster", talks about his book at Northampton's 350th anniversary lecture series at Smith College.
Read MoreOfficials of the Gilder Lehrman Institute presented the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book of the year on the history of slavery. This year’s winner, David Blight, is the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory.
Read MoreDr. Blight talked about his book Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, published by Harvard University Press. In his lecture, Mr. Blight explored the relationship between history and memory, and discusses the importance in establishing the difference between the two.
Read MoreHistory professors discussed the origins of the Civil War and a variety of other issues.
Read MoreThe participants engaged both issues of the Civil War itself, as well as the subsequent fascination with the war amongst Americans. This program ends abruptly.
Read MoreMr. Blight was part of a Civil War Symposium hosted by the National Park Service. He spoke about the National Park Service’s role in interpreting and preserving facts about the Civil War.
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Fred Morsell portrayed Frederick Douglass and answered questions from the audience as Douglass might have.
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