‘Let’s dig into the archives and tell the truth’: interrogating Yale’s connections to slavery
Pulitzer prize winner David Blight follows his biography of Frederick Douglass with a deep dive into his university’s dark past
In 2019, the Yale historian David Blight won a Pulitzer prize, for his monumental biography of Frederick Douglass. In 2020, Blight was beginning work on his next book, about the life of the writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson. Then, his college president called.
“Peter Salovey called me up, in the depths of Covid, and said: ‘Would you lead, manage and write the history of Yale and slavery?’”
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