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Blight:
This is a man
who lives, essentially, the whole trajectory
of 19th-century America. Slavery to freedom to the betrayal
of that freedom, but still trying to hang on to some kind of philosophical
and principled hope
This is a man
who lives, essentially, the whole trajectory
of 19th-century America. Slavery to freedom to the betrayal
of that freedom, but still trying to hang on to some kind of philosophical
and principled hope
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Blight:
This is a man
who lives, essentially,
00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.792
the whole trajectory
of 19th-century America.
00:00:06.875 --> 00:00:08.075
Slavery to freedom
00:00:08.834 --> 00:00:11.334
to the betrayal
of that freedom,
00:00:11.417 --> 00:00:13.501
but still trying to hang on
00:00:13.584 --> 00:00:17.543
to some kind of philosophical
and principled hope.
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Movie Summary
Inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.