Frederick Douglass, the man who escaped slave and became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. A conversation about the life and words of Frederick Douglass, the perils and possibilities of our national history through a rich and humane portrait of a man and his times with guest David W. Blight.
Guest: Scholar David W. Blight is Professor of American History, and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University. Author of several books on abolitionism, American historical memory, and cultural history. His latest is Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom.