David W. Blight
From the Archive: Lectures from Past Seasons • 46m
Originally recorded at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 4, 2019.
David W. Blight lectures on his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom."
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