David Blight

David Blight is a teacher, scholar and public historian. A professor of American history at Yale University and director of the school's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, he is an award-winning author of many books including American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.

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What Frederick Douglass Revealed—and Omitted—in His Famous Autobiographies

The former slave, whose brilliant prose and soaring oratory pricked the conscience of a nation, carefully shaped his own myth. Details like a white second wife didn't fit.