David Brion Davis
David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His most recent book is Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. (May 2007)
From the Review
May 31, 2007: He Changed the New World
Toussaint Louverture: A Biography by Madison Smartt Bell
November 16, 2006: Blacks: Damned by the Bible
The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by David M. Goldenberg
May 26, 2005: 'That Hamilton Man': An Exchange
May 29, 2003: Catching the Conquerors
Captives by Linda Colley
July 18, 2002: The Terrible Cost of Reconciliation
Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War by R.J.M. Blackett
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight
September 20, 2001: 'The Many-Headed Hydra': An Exchange
July 5, 2001: Slavery—White, Black, Muslim, Christian
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa by Lamin Sanneh
February 8, 2001: The Election Mess (letter)
October 5, 2000: The Other Revolution
Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860 by Bonnie S. Anderson
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Geoffrey C. Ward. based on the documentary film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes
Not For Ourselves Alone:The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony by Ken Burns, by Paul Barnes
March 9, 2000: Jews and Blacks in America: An Exchange
February 10, 2000: C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999)
December 2, 1999: Jews and Blacks in America
In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935 by Hasia Diner
Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States edited by Jack Salzman, by Cornel West
Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism by Seth Forman
What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance by Murray Friedman
African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict edited by V.P. Franklin, by Nancy L. Grant, by Harold M. Kletnick, by Genna Rae McNeil
killing rage: ending racism by bell hooks
April 8, 1999: The Big Business of Slavery (letter)
June 11, 1998: A Big Business
The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 by Hugh Thomas
The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 by Robin Blackburn
February 20, 1997: White Wives and Slave Mothers
Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South by Brenda E. Stevenson
October 17, 1996: At the Heart of Slavery
November 16, 1995: The Southern League (letter)
October 5, 1995: Southern Comfort
The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism by Eugene D. Genovese
The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Freedom and Progress in Southern Conservative Thought, 1820–1860 by Eugene D. Genovese
The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War by Eugene D. Genovese
March 2, 1995: Slavery & the Jews (letter)
December 22, 1994: The Slave Trade and the Jews
June 9, 1994: A Later Triumph (letter)
May 12, 1994: The Triumph of the Country
The Age of Federalism by Stanley Elkins, by Eric McKitrick
November 4, 1993: Terror in Mississippi
Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Conspiracy by Winthrop D. Jordan
Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation edited by C. Peter Ripley, edited by Roy E. Finkenbine, edited by Michael F. Hembree, edited by Donald Yacovone
Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War edited by Ira Berlin, edited by Barbara J. Fields, edited by Steven F. Miller, edited by Joseph P. Reidy, edited by Leslie S. Rowland
July 16, 1992: The American Dilemma
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal by Andrew Hacker
The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present by Jacqueline Jones
April 23, 1992: Wounds (letter)
January 30, 1992: Life and Death in Slavery
Celia: A Slave by Melton A. McLaurin
Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North by Thomas P. Slaughter
May 16, 1991: The White World of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely
October 11, 1990: Slaves in Islam
Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry by Bernard Lewis
June 14, 1990: Woodward's Itinerary (letter)
May 17, 1990: The Rebel
The Future of the Past by C. Vann Woodward
May 18, 1989: It Wasn't Peter Salem (letter)
March 30, 1989: The Ends of Slavery
Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam by John Gabriel Stedman. transcribed for the first time from the original 1790 manuscript, edited by Richard Price, by Sally Price
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848 by Robin Blackburn
The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality by George M. Fredrickson
March 31, 1988: The Benefit of Slavery
Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis
Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective by Seymour Drescher
November 5, 1987: The Labyrinth of Slavery
African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean by Herbert S. Klein
Mutiny on the 'Amistad': The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy by Howard Jones
March 27, 1986: Niebuhr & Supernaturalism (letter)
February 13, 1986: American Jeremiah
Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography by Richard Wightman Fox
August 15, 1985: Secrets of the Mormons
America's Saints: The Rise of Mormon Power by Robert Gottlieb, by Peter Wiley
Mormonism: The Story of A New Religious Tradition by Jan Shipps
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman
Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard J. Arrington
February 17, 1983: Of Human Bondage
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study by Orlando Patterson
November 5, 1981: Out of the Shadows
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume One: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire general editor Ladislas Bugner, by Jean Vercoutter, by Jean Leclant, by Frank M. Snowden Jr., by Jehan Desanges, translated by William Granger Ryan
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume Two: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery" Part 1, From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood general editor Ladislas Bugner, by Jean Devisse, with a preliminary essay by Jean Marie Courtès, translated by William Granger Ryan
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume Two: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery" Part 2, Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World (Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries) general editor Ladislas Bugner, by Jean Devisse, by Michel Mollat, translated by William Granger Ryan
May 14, 1981: The Walter Rodney Affair (letter)
June 26, 1980: The Crime of Reform
Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America by David J. Rothman
October 25, 1979: Uncle Oedipus and Ante Bellum
Patricide in the House Divided: A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age by George B. Forgie
May 3, 1979: Marlboro Country
History of the Westward Movement by Frederick Merk
February 23, 1978: The Invasion of the Family
Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged by Christopher Lasch
December 2, 1971: Paranoid History (letter)
Books by David Brion Davis
Inhuman Bondage : The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (2006)
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (1998)
Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations (1990)
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1988)
From Homicide to Slavery: Studies in American Culture (1986)
Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake (1986)
Slavery and Human Progress (1984)
The Fear of Conspiracy; Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present (1971)
The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style (1970)