Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

Name: Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
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ISBN: 9780195056396

ISBN-10: 0195056396

ISBN-13: 9780195056396

Edition: 1988

Authors: David Brion Davis

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Winner of several national awards including the 1967 Pulitzer Prize, this classic study by David Brion Davis has given new direction to the historical and sociological research of society's attitude towards slavery. Davis depicts the various ways different societies have responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770's in order to establish the uniqueness of the abolitionists' response. While slavery has always caused considerable social and psychological tension, Western culture has associated it with certain religious and philosophical doctrines that gave it the highest sanction. The contradiction of slavery grew more profound when it became closely…

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/20/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.31" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His previous books include The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, which won a National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize, and The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture which won a Pulitzer Prize.