David Brion Davis

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David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927) is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is noted for his study of slavery and abolitionism.

Davis served in the U.S Army 1st Armored Division in post-World War II Germany—late 1945 to early 1946. As a member of the the third constabulary brigade, he was tasked with enforcing law and order not just members of the U.S Army, but on locals and other foreign troops, too. He later recounted his varied experiences in this position, which included tense relations between white and black soldiers.^[1]

He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.^[2] He taught for 14 years in the Department of History at Cornell University, and moved to Yale in 1970. He is now Director Emeritus of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, which he founded in 1998 and directed until 2004.^[2] He was President of Organization of American Historians (1988-89) and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1967 for his book [[The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture]],^[3] His book The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 won the National Book Award in History and Biography, and the Bancroft Prize and the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. His Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (2006) won three awards, including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In January 2007 Davis received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

Author

• Homicide in American Fiction 1798-1860, Cornell University Press, 1957
• The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, Cornell University Press ,1966
• The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution , Cornell University Press, 1975, ISBN 0-8014-0888-1

Slavery and Human Progress, Oxford University Press, 1984 ISBN 0-19-503439-2

• Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations, Harvard University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-674-76805-1
• In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-300-08814-0
• Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery , Harvard University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-674-01985-7
• Inhuman Bondage, the Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-19-514073-7

Editor

• with Steven Mintz, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery Through the Civil War, Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0195116690

References

External links

• David Brion Davis, "American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective", Southern Spaces, 4 February 2009. http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2009/davis/1a.htm

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