'A Radical Patriot': Frederick Douglass and His Legacy
Hosted by the Kentucky Book Festival and the University of Kentucky Department of History
2019 History winner David W. Blight. (David W. Blight)
David Blight, who was awarded the 2019 History Prize for his most recent book, "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom," will discuss Douglass' personal and political life as well as his long and continued significance and impact on the history of the United States. Amy Murrell Taylor, a historian of the American South whose work focuses on the era of the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, is the author of (most recently), "Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps." She currently teaches history at the University of Kentucky. This event is sponsored by the University of Kentucky Department of History.