Volume 53, Number 9 · May 25, 2006
They'll Take Their Stand
By George M. Fredrickson
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
by David Brion Davis
Oxford University Press, 440 pp., $30.00
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese
Cambridge University Press, 828 pp., $75.00; $31.99 (paper)
For nearly half a century two historians have dominated the field of slavery studies, broadly conceived. David Brion Davis has been the preeminent historian of ideas about slavery in the Western world since the early modern period and has completed two volumes of a projected trilogy: The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture and The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823.[1] He has now taken time out from work on the third volume in this sequence to produce a general history of slavery and antislavery in the Americas, especially in the parts of it colonized by the English.
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