Press release from Lenoir-Rhyne University-Asheville:
Civil War historian David Blight will present a talk on Frederick Douglass on Saturday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m at Lenoir-Rhyne University-Asheville, 36 Montford Avenue.
The talk, “My Voice, My Pen, My Vote: The Several Lives of Frederick Douglass,” is sponsored by the Association of Yale Alumni for Western North Carolina, Lenoir-Rhyne University Asheville, and the Martin Luther King Association. Talk is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served at 7 pm.
Administrator of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Blight is currently finishing a new, full biography of Frederick Douglass that will be published by Simon and Schuster in early 2018.
David Blight is the author of Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee.
Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory, was the companion book for the opening of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.His American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era, an intellectual history of Civil War memory, rooted in the work of Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin, received the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award for best book in non-fiction on racism and human diversity.
Blight is also the author of A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their Narratives of Emancipation, Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil War, and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory which received eight book awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, four awards from the Organization of American Historians, and the Frederick Douglass Prize.
Since 2004, David Blight has been professor of American History at Yale University. He is director of the Gilder Lehman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. In 2010-11 Blight was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19th century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. He previously taught at Amherst College, Harvard University, and Cambridge University, UK. In 2012, Blight was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
RSVP for the event to Susy Chandler, Lenoir-Rhyne University Center Affairs Coordinator, (828) 407-4263 or susy.chandler@lr.edu, or follow this link.
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