David Blight was interviewed on stage by James Basker about his book, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation, published by Harcourt.

David Blight on Slave Narratives, by Coy Barefoot. • "Slave narratives are extremely rare, with only 55 post-Civil War narratives surviving with only a handful of those in the first-person.

Moderated by Professor Blight, a panel of black scholars from history, law, linguistics, and business discussed the nature of historical justice in regard to slavery in the United States and how America should respond to its support of slavery during its founding and over several generations.

The participants engaged both issues of the Civil War itself, as well as the subsequent fascination with the war amongst Americans. This program ends abruptly.

Fred Morsell portrayed Frederick Douglass and answered questions from the audience as Douglass might have.