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David Brion Davis was an American historian of slavery and abolition and a longtime Yale professor. His three-volume study The Problem of Slavery examined slavery in Western intellectual history, the era of revolution, and the nineteenth-century United States. Davis received the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for the first volume and founded Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
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What is David Brion Davis's slavery trilogy?
The trilogy consists of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, and The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation. The books trace how slavery was defended, criticized, and eventually challenged across the Western world.
Which David Brion Davis book won the Pulitzer Prize?
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Cornell University Press first published the book in 1966.
How did David Brion Davis study slavery differently from older historians?
He examined slavery as an intellectual, religious, political, and cultural problem, not only as an economic institution. His approach connected proslavery arguments and abolitionist ideas across Britain, Europe, and the United States.
What is the final volume of Davis's slavery project?
The final volume is The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, published in 2014. It examines abolition, emancipation, and the limitations of freedom after slavery was legally dismantled in different societies.
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