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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. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He taught for 14 years at Cornell University before moving to Yale in 1970. He is currently 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. He was President of Organization of American Historians (1988-89) and won the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction in 1967, as well as the National Book Award, and Bancroft Prize.
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
- 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, 2006, 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
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- 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
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