Frederick Douglass(Reprint) Prophet of Freedom by DavidW. Blight Paperback, 912 Pages, Published 2019 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9032-3, ISBN: 1-4165-9032-3
"**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** “Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) 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.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to ..."
Race and Reunion(Updated) The Civil War in American Memory by DavidW. Blight Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2002 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00819-9, ISBN: 0-674-00819-7
"Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and Am ..."
"Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era David W. Blight, Brooks D.
Simpson ... Press, 1986), particularly 77; and David R. Roediger, The Wages of
Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso
Books, 1991), 1oo-m. 9. ... William J. Mahar, "Black English in Early Blackface
Minstrelsy: A New Interpretation of the Sources of Minstrel Show Uxdect"
American Quarterly 37 (Summer1985): 260-85; Smith, ..."
Frederick Douglass’ Civil War(Updated) Keeping Faith in Jubilee by DavidW. Blight Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 1991 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-1724-8, ISBN: 0-8071-1724-2
"In this sensitive intellectual biography David W. Blight undertakes the first systematic analysis of the impact of the Civil War on Frederick Douglass' life and thought, offering new insights into the meaning of the war in American history and in the Afro-American experience. Frederick Douglass' Civil War follows Douglass' intellectual and personal growth from the political crises of the 1850s through secession, war, black enlistment, e ..."
When This Cruel War Is Over(First Edition) The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster by DavidW. Blight Paperback, 378 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Massachusetts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55849-748-1, ISBN: 1-55849-748-X
""I am scared most to death every battle we have, but I don't think you need be afraid of my sneaking away unhurt." Thus wrote Adjutant Charles Harvey Brewster of the 10th Massachusetts to his sister Mattie in 1864, in one of over 200 letters he would pen during his four years of service. Born and raised in Northampton, Massachusetts, Brewster was a 27-year-old store clerk when he enlisted in Company C of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer ..."
A Slave No More(1st Edition) Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (.) by DavidW. Blight Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2009 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603451-7, ISBN: 0-15-603451-4
"Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post–Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group with the publication of A Slave No More, a major new addition to the canon of American history. Handed ..."
Beyond the Battlefield(Updated) Race, Memory, and the American Civil War by DavidW. Blight Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Massachusetts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55849-361-2, ISBN: 1-55849-361-1
A Slave No More(1st Edition) Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation by DavidW. Blight, Daniel W. Blight Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-101232-9, ISBN: 0-15-101232-6