File:Ian Shapiro, Crystal Feimster, Robert Stepto, David Blight and Frederick Douglass - A Conversation about Frederick Douglass.pdf

English: On April 1, 2019, the American Academy and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale presented their first joint public program, which featured a conversation between David Blight (Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slav- ery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University) and Robert Stepto (John M. Schiff Professor of English and Profes- sor of African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University). The program, which served as the Academy’s Morton L. Mandel Public Lecture, included a welcome from Ian Shapiro (Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale University). Crystal Feimster (Associate Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies at Yale University) moderated the program. An edited version of the discussion appears below.