Quotes by : David Brion Davis

HIt is surely certain - as certain as one can be about any historical events - that the fall of New World....

For Southerners, a white skin was the distinguishing badge of mind and intellect. Black skin was the....

Some Southerners effectively applied slave labor to the cultivation of corn, grain, and hemp (for making....

The subject of British abolitionism has long been controversial, complex, and even baffling. It also....

What matters is that Southern slaves, at least on the larger plantations, created their own African American....

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive....

Thus the word "inhuman", in this book's title, refers to the unconscionable and unsuccessful goal of....

What matters is that Southern slaves, at least on the larger plantations, created their own AfricanAmerican....

It was the mission of the Confederacy, ordinary whites were told, to carry out God’s design for an....

Much as slavery in the United States was part of a larger Atlantic Slave System, so America’s War of....