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Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality

David W. BlightPulitzer Prize WinnerYale University

Sterling Professor of History

50:12·2008·introductory level

Professor Blight examines the historical development of abolitionism, analyzing the genre of slave narratives through Frederick Douglass's 1845 work and discussing the ideologies of gradualism, colonization, and radical anti-slavery exemplified by William Lloyd Garrison.

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The Civil War and Reconstruction (HIST 119)

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David W. BlightPulitzer Prize Winner

Pulitzer Prize for History · Sterling Professor of History · Yale University

David W. Blight is a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian renowned for his definitive scholarship on the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850

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