David Blight publishes new biography of Frederick Douglass

David W. Blight

In his new book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018), David Blight draws on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass’s newspapers. Blight tells the fascinating story of Douglass’s two marriages and his complex extended family. Douglass was not only an astonishing man of words, but a thinker steeped in Biblical story and theology. There has not been a major biography of Douglass in a quarter century. David Blight’s Frederick Douglass affords this important American the distinguished biography he deserves.

Read more from the publisher, Simon and Schuster:  http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Frederick-Douglass/David-W-Blight/…
Tuesday, October 16, 2018