American Experience; The Abolitionists; Interview with David William Blight, part 1 of 6

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Series
American Experience
Episode
The Abolitionists
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Interview with David William Blight, part 1 of 6
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David William Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. His works include: Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory; Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory & the American Civil War; and A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation.
Topics
Race and Ethnicity
History
Biography
Subjects
American history, African Americans, civil rights, racism, abolition
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(c) 2013-2017 WGBH Educational Foundation
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Moving Image
Duration
00:29:08
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Chicago: “American Experience; The Abolitionists; Interview with David William Blight, part 1 of 6,” American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 28, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-1z41r6nx0k.
MLA: “American Experience; The Abolitionists; Interview with David William Blight, part 1 of 6.” American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 28, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-1z41r6nx0k>.
APA: American Experience; The Abolitionists; Interview with David William Blight, part 1 of 6. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-1z41r6nx0k