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Two Tickets to Author David Blight at The Music Hall
- Item Number
- 284
- Estimated Value
- 28 USD
- Sold
- 15 USD to kla2597be
- Number of Bids
- 2 - Bid History
Item Description
Author David Blight will be at The Music Hall on Thursday, January 16, 2020 with his new book, Frederick Douglass. You want to be in the audience at the Historic Theater for this event because Frederick Douglass spoke on this very site (when it was The Temple) not once but twice! It gives us goosebumps just thinking about that connection.
Part of our Writers on a New England Stage series, the event will start at 7pm with a post-show reception to follow at approximately 8pm.
Blight is the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for History. His new book is a biography on the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.
Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, using his own story to condemn slavery. By the Civil War, Douglass had become the most famed and widely traveled orator in the nation. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. After the war, he sometimes argued politically with younger African Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights.
In this “cinematic and deeply engaging” (The New York Times Book Review) biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historians have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass’s newspapers.
Item Special Note
- This package does not include Blight's book; however, copies of the book will be available for purchase on the night of the event.
- Item is non-transferable.
- Item is not redeemable for cash.
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