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Article: Slavery and human progress.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 8, 1985
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SINCE THE 1950s, David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, has written voluminously on slavery. His latest book treats of the changing views of slavery in nineteenth-century Western culture.
Alathough Davis presents his material thoroughly and perceptively, he is a man with a strong political passion. Unlike other academic men of the Left, such as Eugene Genovese and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, he makes no attempt to deal sympathetically with those destined for the dustbin of history. Davis views the past and the present in stark Manichean terms, crying out against nineteent-century slave-owners and praising reformers.
Even so, ...
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