“'Frederick Douglass' Provides Authoritative Context for an Important American Life” - Christian Science MonitorĪs a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. “‘Frederick Douglass’ Review: His Tongue the Pen of God” - The Wall Street Journal

“Complex Look at Frederick Douglass with a Lesson for Trump Era” - The Boston Globe “Frederick Douglass Never Stopped Fighting for Black Liberation” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom by David W. “The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass” - The New Yorker “‘Frederick Douglass’ Is An Extended Meditation On The Legend's Self-Invention” - NPR “BLIGHT: Frederick Douglass (2018)” - The Civil War Monitor “A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth” - New York Times

“The Double Battle: Frederick Douglass’s Moral Crusade” - The Nation “Review: 'Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,' by David W. “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom review: a monumental biography” - The Guardian “Frederick Douglass in Full” - New York Times Sunday Book Review Blight’s ‘Frederick Douglass’” - San Francisco Chronicle “‘Radical Patriot’: A Review of David W. “Frederick Douglass Biography by Yale Historian a Lesson for our time” - New Haven Register “The Confounding Truth About Frederick Douglass” - The Atlantic “Frederick Douglass: From hunted fugitive slave to brilliant elder statesman” - Washington Post Book Reviews: “The self-made man” - The Times Literary Supplement 2018 Los Angeles Book Prize for Biography Awards: William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography

Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight