David Brion Davis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 316958 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Brion Davis |
| PRENOMES | David Brion |
| SOBRENOME | Davis |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIS D B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 117 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 785 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 116 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1953 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New Wor…
Impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions
Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860
Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting. Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 is the first book to contrast psychological assumptions of imaginative writers with certain social and intel…
Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860
Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting. Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 is the first book to contrast psychological assumptions of imaginative writers with certain social and intel…
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
River of Dark Dreams
When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an empire for liberty populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves. River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the…
The Amistad Test of Law and Justice
ALTHOUGH THE STORY of the Cuban ship La Amistad was long ignored in American history textbooks and standard works on slavery and antislavery, it received enormous publicity in 1997 as a result of Steven Spielberg’s some-what inaccurate but powerful film, Amistad. I have chosen to begin with this historical narrative because it presents a concrete test of American law and justice and also dramatically illustrates the multinational character of the…
The Atlantic Slave System
In the mid-to-late 1500s the Portuguese gradually transferred the system of sugar plantations worked by slaves from their Atlantic islands such as Madeira, São Tomé, and Principe to northeastern Brazil. The plantation system involved everything from long-term capital investment and the African slave trade to the technology and economic organization for cultivating and harvesting sugarcane and then manufacturing sugar and eventually molasses and r…
The Ancient Foundations of Modern Slavery
To Give Some Idea Of the difficulty and complexity of finding a workable definition of slavery, I will begin by considering two examples of prouder bondage: the first from Neo-Babylonia in the sixth century before the Common Era (B.C.E.); the second from the Tupinamba, an aboriginal tribe living along the coast of Brazil from the Amazon south at the time of the first European contact.
Dedication
The Civil War and Slave Emancipation
On April 2, 1865, General Robert E. Lee sent a shocking telegram to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. Writing from Petersburg, Virginia, then twenty-five miles south of Richmond, where Davis still ruled from the Confederate capital, Lee warned that it was absolutely necessary to evacuate Richmond that night. Since Union troops were already forcing an abandonment of Petersburg, Lee had to choose between the loss of R…
Abolitionism in America
In The Early Nineteenth Century, especially after the War of 1812–15, a “market revolution” and “transportation revolution” increasingly transformed American society. Improved roads and especially canals opened up markets and profits that were beyond the previous dreams of many enterprising farmers, skilled artisans, and manufacturers. But the rapid economic growth and urbanization of the 1820s devastated many other Americans who could no longer …
A Selective Calendar of Events
Subject African History Slavery and Abolition of Slavery World History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Explanations of British Abolitionism
The subject of british abolitionism has long been controversial, complex, and even baffling. It also raises the issue of moral progress in history— whether groups of reformers and even nations can succeed in eliminating deeply entrenched forms of human oppression, and if so, by what methods, misconceptions, and under what conditions? We now know that with respect to economic self-interest, British humanitarianism, at least in its abolitionist for…
The Origins of Antiblack Racism in the New World
The word “racism” was apparently not used in America until 1936, but the reality to which the word refers loomed like a fatal and contagious disease in the eyes of free African Americans one hundred years earlier. For black abolitionists like Theodore S. Wright, such racial prejudice was the central evil to be overcome, even more than slavery. A Presbyterian minister in New York City, a graduate of Princeton Seminary, and a founding member of the…
The Impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions
On january 2, 1893, the aging Frederick Douglass delivered an eloquent speech dedicating the Haitian Pavilion at the Chicago World’s Fair, or “Columbian Exposition.” As a recent United States minister and consul general to Haiti and as an Exposition Commissioner of the Haitian government, Douglass had helped to plan the exhibits of the pavilion, which he called, following the Puritan John Winthrop (and, from the New Testament, Matthew 5:14) “a ci…
The Politics of Slavery in the United States
Racial Slavery was so central to American politics and foreign policy— indeed, to all issues involving power in the period between the Revolution and Civil War—that it would take a whole series of chapters or even a separate book to cover most of the ground. In this chapter I will limit myself to a brief discussion of American foreign policy, the Missouri Crisis of 1819– 21, the impact on America and especially the South of Britain’s emancipation…
Prologue
In 1770, on the eve of the American Revolution, African American slavery was legal and almost unquestioned throughout the New World. The ghastly slave trade from Africa was still expanding and for many decades had beenshipping five Africans across the Atlantic for every European immigrant to the Americas. An imaginary “hemispheric traveler” would have seen black slaves in every colony from Canada and New England all the way south to Spanish Peru …
Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century South, II
In theory, the Southern slaveholder possessed all the power of any owner of living chattel property, such as horses, sheep, cows, or oxen. We have seen that Aristotle referred to the ox “as the poor man’s slave”; “the chattel principle” was probably best defined by the American fugitive slave James W. C. Pennington: The being of slavery, its soul and its body, lives and moves in the chattel principle, the property principle, the bill of sale prin…
The Problem of Slavery in the American Revolution
Much as slavery in the United States was part of a larger Atlantic Slave System, so America’s War of Independence was an outgrowth of Europe’s Seven Years’ War—from 1756 to 1763—and also a precursor or harbinger of the French and Haitian revolutions and of the subsequent Latin American wars for independence from Spain. Those foreign upheavals, really beginning with British and French fighting on the American frontier in 1755, had tremendous polit…
How Africans Became Integral to New World History
In the past, many historians, including Marxists, accepted a model of “economic determinism” when discussing the origins of New World slavery and the restriction of enslavement to Native Americans and then almost exclusively to sub-Saharan Africans and their descendants. Presenting racial slavery as an economically backward but inevitable and temporary stage in historical development, given the shortage of labor and the almost limitless expanses …
Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century South, I
The strongest card in the hands of American abolitionists was their ability to indict the entire American nation for what appeared to be the most hypocritical contradiction in all human history: A nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition “that all men are created equal” happened also to be the nation, by the mid-nineteenth century, with the largest number of slaves in the Western Hemisphere—a nation whose most valuable exports…
Slavery in Colonial North America
Although histories of slavery in North America have usually begun with the famous sale in 1619 of twenty “negars” by a Dutch ship captain to some English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia, we now know that some blacks had arrived in Jamestown even earlier and that African slaves had appeared in Spanish Florida as early as the 1560s. Even more telling, by the mid-1600s, when the sugar revolution was beginning to transform the important English colon…
Epilogue
Some Nineteenth-Century Slave Conspiracies and Revolts
Since the 1960s most American historians have shown considerable sympathy and support for slave conspiracies and revolts as the most extreme form of legitimate resistance against racist dehumanization and oppression. In earlier decades most historians, who were overwhelmingly white, expressed horror over the slaughter of whites, especially women and children; paid little attention to the execution, often without a trial, of hundreds of blacks acc…
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823
The author explores the international impact and social significance of antislavery thought in a critical era of political and industrial revolution. He examines the implications and historical consequences of challenging the long-accepted institution of slavery. The study not only provides a comparative account of early antislavery movements, but also uses the controversies over slavery to analyse shifting attitudes towards labour, social order,…
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
This essay examines the complex and often paradoxical relationship between slavery and Western culture. Davis argues that while Western thought developed concepts of freedom, equality, and human rights, it simultaneously accommodated and justified the institution of slavery. He explores the intellectual history of slavery from ancient Greece to the 19th century, analyzing how philosophers, theologians, and political thinkers grappled with the mor…
Inhuman Bondage
David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his rich and powerful prose. Now, in Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight in what Stanley L. Engerman calls "a monumental and ma…
El problema de la esclavitud en la cultura occidental
Slavery and human progress
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
River of Dark Dreams
When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an empire for liberty populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labor of slaves. River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the…
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion
Journal Article Some Themes of Counter-Subversion: An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature Get access David Brion Davis David Brion Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 47, Issue 2, September 1960, Pages 205–224, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891707 Published: 01 September 1960
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 177-1823
African Economic History
Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery
Challenging the boundaries of slavery ultimately brought on the Civil War and the unexpected, immediate emancipation of slaves long before it could have been achieved in any other way. This imaginative and fascinating book puts slavery into a new light and underscores anew the desperate human tragedy lying at the very heart of the American story
"The Debate Over "Slavery
The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought
Journal Article The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought Get access David Brion Davis David Brion Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 49, Issue 2, September 1962, Pages 209–230, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888627 Published: 01 September 1962
Constructing Race
A LTHOUGH political rhetoric often conceals this truth, as we complete the twentieth century and prepare to enter a new millennium, no issue in America is as sensitive, potentially explosive, and resistant to resolution as the issue of race. To understand the meanings of race in the future, we must first uncover the historical and cultural contexts of the past in which separate human races were conceived. Since responsible scientists have long di…
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
Some Ideological Functions of Prejudice in Ante-Bellum America
Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery
Introduction 1. The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery 2. 1819: Signs of a New Era 3. African-American Abolitionism and Southern Fears Notes Index
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
Some Recent Directions in American Cultural History
THIS essay is not a historiographical survey; nor does it propose a daring new method that promises to eliminate the confusion surrounding American cultural history. Rather, it is an attempt to distinguish three levels of abstraction or specificity that characterize some of the best recent approaches to the subject. The purpose of such an approach is to call attention to fruitful developments in theory and method and to emphasize the need for a c…
In the Image of God
In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery. By David Brion Davis. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. vii, 392. $35.00.) Few historians have written so brilliantly and with such deep understanding of slavery and its many cultural, economic, and religious complications as Davis Brion Davis. In this collection of essays and essay reviews, the prizewinning Sterling Professor at Yale once more demonstrates his c…
James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement, 1823-1833
James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement, 1821-1823
Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies
The New England Origins of Mormonism
JT is a curious fact that the vast literature on Mormonism tends to treat the subject as everything but a religion. Until the twentieth century the issue was so incendiary that nonMormon publications were usually either polemics written or preached by Protestant ministers or sensational exposes by people who claimed to have penetrated Brigham Young's iron curtain. But if the Woodruff Manifesto made polygamy and thus Mormonism an academic matter f…
Ten-Gallon Hero
IN 1900 it seemed that the significance of the cowboy era would decline along with other brief but romantic episodes in American history. The Long Drive lingered only in the memories and imaginations of old cowhands. The hoe-men occupied former range land while Mennonites and professional dry farmers had sown their Turkey Red winter wheat on the Kansas prairies. To be sure, a cattle industry still flourished, but the cowboy was more like an emplo…
Murder in New Hampshire
Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860
Homicide and the Nature of Man ALL our inquiries in morals, religion, and politics must begin with human nature.The ends for which a being is made, his relations, his true course of conduct, depend upon his nature.To comprehend the former, we must understand the latter.Accordingly, certain views of man are involved in all speculation about the object of life, and the proper sphere of human action.On such views all schemes of society and legislati…
James Madison, The President
Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860
Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860
The Novel of Violence in America
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion
Journal Article Some Themes of Counter-Subversion: An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature Get access David Brion Davis David Brion Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 47, Issue 2, September 1960, Pages 205–224, https://doi.org/10.2307/1891707 Published: 01 September 1960
The Anatomy of American Popular Culture, 1840-1861
Journal Article The Anatomy of American Popular Culture, 1840–1861. By Carl Bode. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1959. xxii + 292 pp. Illustrations, note on the sources, and index. $6.00.) Get access David Brion Davis David Brion Davis Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 46, Issue 4, March 1960, Pages 712–713, https://doi.org/10.2307/1886293 Pu…
James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement, 1821-1823
The Cultural Life of the New Nation, 1776-1830
Journal Article The Cultural Life of the New Nation, 1776–1830. By Russel Blaine Nye. The New American Nation Series. Edited by Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960. xii + 324 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $5.00.) Get access David Brion Davis David Brion Davis Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement, 1823-1833
The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought
Journal Article The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought Get access David Brion Davis David Brion Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 49, Issue 2, September 1962, Pages 209–230, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888627 Published: 01 September 1962
Some Ideological Functions of Prejudice in Ante-Bellum America
Abolitionists and the Freedmen
Violence in American Literature
The frequency of fighting and killing in American literature is not necessarily proof of an unusually violent so ciety, but literary treatments of violence have reflected certain historical conditions and circumstances. The growth of popular literacy created a mass audience whose attention could best be held by suspense, surprise, and startling contrast. The Revolution provided a model for later fiction in which the hero's triumph was not a blow …
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Benjamin Lundy and the Struggle for Negro Freedom
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
This essay examines the complex and often paradoxical relationship between slavery and Western culture. Davis argues that while Western thought developed concepts of freedom, equality, and human rights, it simultaneously accommodated and justified the institution of slavery. He explores the intellectual history of slavery from ancient Greece to the 19th century, analyzing how philosophers, theologians, and political thinkers grappled with the mor…
Some Recent Directions in American Cultural History
THIS essay is not a historiographical survey; nor does it propose a daring new method that promises to eliminate the confusion surrounding American cultural history. Rather, it is an attempt to distinguish three levels of abstraction or specificity that characterize some of the best recent approaches to the subject. The purpose of such an approach is to call attention to fruitful developments in theory and method and to emphasize the need for a c…
Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817-1886
White Over Black
Originally published in 1968 by UNC Press, White over Black is Winthrop Jordan's award winning work on the history of American race relations
The Anti-Slavery Movement and Reconstruction
The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style
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