BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:Europe/Berlin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:65@yaleclub.de DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210518T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210518T203000 DTSTAMP:20210428T104412Z URL:https://www.yaleclub.de/events/an-evening-with-prof-david-w-blight/ SUMMARY:An evening with Prof. David W. Blight DESCRIPTION:\nDavid W. Blight\nSterling Professor of History and Director o f the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery\, Resistance\, and Ab olition \nat Yale University\n \;\nFrederick Douglass: Prose Poet of American Democracy\, in His Time and Our Own\nAs a young man Frederick Do uglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore\, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress\, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intell igence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.\nInitially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison\, Douglass spokewidely\, using his own story to co ndemn slavery. By the Civil War\, Douglass had become the most famed and w idely travelled orator in the nation. In his unique and eloquent voice\, w ritten and spoken\, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as w ell as a radical patriot. After the war he sometimes argued politically wi th younger African Americans\, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights. His life and words ring true even today\, especially given the racial tension currently play ing out in the United States.\n\nDavid W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slaver y\, Resistance\, and Abolition at Yale University. He previously taught at North Central College in Illinois\, Harvard University\, and Amherst Coll ege. He is the author or editor of a dozen books\, including Frederick Dou glass: Prophet of Freedom\; American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Ri ghts Era\; Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory\; and annota ted editions of Douglass’s first two autobiographies.\n\nHe has worked o n Douglass much of his professional life\, and been awarded the Pulitzer P rize\, the Bancroft Prize\, the Abraham Lincoln Prize\, and the Frederick Douglass Prize\, among others. He writes frequently for the popular press\ , including the Atlantic\, the New York Times\, and many other journals. H is lecture course on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era at Yale is on th e internet at https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-119. Blight has always be en a teacher first. At the beginning of his career\, he spent seven years as a high school history teacher in his hometown of Flint\, Michigan. Blig ht maintains a website\, including information about public lectures\, boo ks\, articles and interviews at www.davidblight.com.\n\n​Moderation: Pr ofessor Dr. Klaus Benesch is professor of English and American Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and former director of the Bav arian American Academy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event is a cooperation betwe en Munich Dialogues on Democracy\, the Bavarian American Academy and Am erikahaus.\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Berlin,Frankfurt,Germany,Hamburg,Munich,Munich Dialogues on Democracy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR