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American Oracle

The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era

David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of many books including Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History, and Race and Reunion, which received the Bancroft Prize and Frederick Douglass Prize, among other awards.

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