David W. Blight Discusses “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” with Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Gilder Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale will host a book conversation between David W. Blight, GLC Director and Class of 1954 Professor of American History, and author Ta-Nehisi Coates. The program celebrates the release of Blight’s new biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon and Schuster, 2018).

Read the full press release here: https://macmillan.yale.edu/news/david-w-blight-discusses-frederick-douglass-prophet-freedom-ta-nehisi-coates