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David Brion Davis

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in Denver, Colorado, The United States

February 16, 1927

Died

April 14, 2019

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David Brion Davis was an American historian and authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He was a foremost intellectual and cultural historian. The author and editor of 17 books, and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Davis played a principal role in explaining the latest historiography to a broad audience. His books emphasized religious and ideological links among material conditions, political interests, and new political values.

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	Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World 4.23 avg rating — 1,090 ratings — published 2006 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (The Problem of Slavery, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1966 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation 4.07 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 1770 TO 1823 4.09 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1975 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War 4.13 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery and Human Progress (Galaxy Books) 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolutions : Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Problem of Slavery (3 books)
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“We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.”
― David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

tags: democracy, slavery

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“<...> tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.”
― David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

tags: history, slavery

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“<...> black slavery was basic and integral to the entire phenomenon we call “America.” This often hidden or disguised truth ultimately involves the profound contradiction of a free society that was made possible by black slave labor.”
― David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

tags: history, slavery

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