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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
Davis served as director till June 2004, [8] when historian David. W. Blight, Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University, succeeded him as current director as of 2021. [9] The center's mission is to promote the study of all aspects of slavery and its legacy, with focus on the chattel slave system and its destruction.
The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade: 2002 Second Prize John Stauffer: The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race [10] 2001 David Blight: Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory: 2000 David Eltis: The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas: 1999 Ira Berlin: Many Thousands ...
Yale also plans to release “Yale and Slavery: A History,” a book by professor David W. Blight with the Yale and Slavery Research Project.
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Museum of African American History & Abiel Smith School: Boston: Massachusetts: 1964 [112] Museum of the African Diaspora: San Francisco: California: 2005 [113] Nash House Museum: Buffalo: New York: 2003 [114] Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture: Natchez: Mississippi: 1991 [115] National African American Archives and Museum ...
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press (for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture). ISBN 978-0807827147. Bancroft Prize for American History, 2003 [8] Bullock, Henry Allen (1967). A History of Negro Education in the South, from 1619 to the Present. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674399501.
In 2020 Yale's president, Peter Salovey, launched the Yale and Slavery Research Project to explore the university's links with slavery and colonialism, including Elihu Yale's central role. [7] The project was led by David W. Blight , director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition , and published its ...