David Blight in Conversation

David Blight with Kathleen DuVal

Community & Scholars Speaker Series

As part of the Community & Scholars Series, the Regulator Bookshop welcomes David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, for talk and book signing. Blight will be joined in conversation with UNC Professor of History Kathleen DuVal. Blight’s Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom is the definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.

In this remarkable biography, David Blight has drawn 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.

Free and open to the public. The Community & Scholars Speaker Series is co-sponsored by the Regulator Bookshop and the Forum for Scholars and Publics.