David W. Blight Quote

He delivered some fifteen lectures in and around Dryden and McGrawville, New York. On October 1 he announced appearances in at least eleven towns in Tompkins County alone. The schedule was backbreaking, but on an earlier stop in Ithaca in late July, Douglass described a little break before the evening speech. He hiked a mile or two along the east bank of Cayuga Lake until he found a suitable place to renew my acquaintance with the art of swimming. He told of his sheer joy in a kind of diary for the paper: Here all my boyish pranks in the front basin of Baltimore were renewed. I had a glorious swim.33

David W. Blight

He delivered some fifteen lectures in and around Dryden and McGrawville, New York. On October 1 he announced appearances in at least eleven towns in Tompkins County alone. The schedule was backbreaking, but on an earlier stop in Ithaca in late July, Douglass described a little break before the evening speech. He hiked a mile or two along the east bank of Cayuga Lake until he found a suitable place to renew my acquaintance with the art of swimming. He told of his sheer joy in a kind of diary for the paper: Here all my boyish pranks in the front basin of Baltimore were renewed. I had a glorious swim.33

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About David W. Blight

David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years. He has won several awards, including the Bancroft Prize and Frederick Douglass Prize for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and the Pulitzer Prize and Lincoln Prize for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. In 2021, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.