<p><a href="http://www.davidwblight.com/latest">David Blight</a> 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 <a href="http://www.davidwblight.com/books/">books</a> including <em>American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era</em> and the Pulitzer Prize-winning&nbsp;biography <em><a href="http://www.davidwblight.com/books/">Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</a>.&nbsp;</em></p>


David Blight

David Blight is a teacher, scholar and public historian. A professor of American history at Yale University and director of the school&#8217;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&nbsp;biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.&nbsp;

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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&nbsp;biography Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.&nbsp;

<p>Slavery was widely practiced throughout the ancient world, and in the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, which helped propel the United States into the Civil War.</p>


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