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David Brion Davis

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Born: February 15 1927

Died: 1313 04 20192019

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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David Brion Davis

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Books from David Brion Davis

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery

Slavery and Human Progress

The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History (Paperback))

Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations

The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present

The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation

Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860: A Study in Social Values

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

Rare Antique Homicide In American Fiction, 1798-1860 [Hardcover] DAVIS, David Brion

Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860: A Study in Social Values

Race and the Early Republic: Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic

The Tanner Lectures Vol 27

Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860: A Study in Social Values

Antebellum American Culture: An Interpretive Anthology