The Problem Of Slavery In Western Culture

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195056396

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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis Pdf

This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199799053

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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis Pdf

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 linked with American colonization, which had as its basic foundation the desire and opportunity to create a more perfect society. Davis provides a comparative analysis of slave systems in the Old World, a discussion of the early attitudes towards American slavery, and a detailed exploration of the early protests against Negro bondage, as well as the religious, literary, and philosophical developments that contributed to both sides in the controversies of the late eighteenth century. This exemplary introduction to the history of slavery in Western culture presents the traditions in thought and value that gave rise to the attitudes of both abolitionists and defenders of slavery in the late eighteenth century as well as the nineteenth century.

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195339444

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Inhuman Bondage by David Brion Davis Pdf

The author's lifetime of insight as the leading authority on slavery in the Western world is summed up in this compelling narrative that links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism in a sweeping and compelling history of the institution of slavery in the United States. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture.

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307389695

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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis Pdf

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2014 With this volume, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history. Bringing to a close his staggeringly ambitious, prizewinning trilogy on slavery in Western culture Davis offers original and penetrating insights into what slavery and emancipation meant to Americans. He explores how the Haitian Revolution respectively terrified and inspired white and black Americans, hovering over the antislavery debates like a bloodstained ghost. He offers a surprising analysis of the complex and misunderstood significance the project to move freed slaves back to Africa. He vividly portrays the dehumanizing impact of slavery, as well as the generally unrecognized importance of freed slaves to abolition. Most of all, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history.

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198029496

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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis Pdf

David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture and the second volume of a proposed trilogy, is a truly monumental work of historical scholarship that first appeared in 1975 to critical acclaim both academic and literary. This reprint of that important work includes a new preface by the author, in which he situates the book's argument within the historiographic debates of the last two decades.

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040109566

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Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis Pdf

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation from ancient times to the twentieth century. His trenchant analysis puts the most recent international debates about freedom and human rights into much-needed perspective. Davis shows that slavery was once regarded as a form of human progress, playing a critical role in the expansion of the western world. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that views of slavery as a retrograde institution gained far-reaching acceptance. Davis illuminates this momentous historical shift from "progressive" enslavement to "progressive" emancipation, ranging over an array of important developments--from the slave trade of early Muslims and Jews to twentieth-century debates over slavery in the League of Nations and the United Nations. In probing the intricate connections among slavery, emancipation, and the idea of progress, Davis sheds new light on two crucial issues: the human capacity for dignifying acts of oppression and the problem of implementing social change.

Author : Joseph C. Miller
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300113150

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The Problem of Slavery as History by Joseph C. Miller Pdf

Why did slavery—an accepted evil for thousands of years—suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Joseph C. Miller turns this classic question on its head by rethinking the very nature of slavery, arguing that it must be viewed generally as a process rather than as an institution. Tracing the global history of slaving over thousands of years, Miller reveals the shortcomings of Western narratives that define slavery by the same structures and power relations regardless of places and times, concluding instead that slaving is a process which can be understood fully only as imbedded in changing circumstances.

Author : Duncan Money,Jason Xidas
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351353328

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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution by Duncan Money,Jason Xidas Pdf

How was it possible for opponents of slavery to be so vocal in opposing the practice, when they were so accepting of the economic exploitation of workers in western factories – many of which were owned by prominent abolitionists? David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, uses the critical thinking skill of analysis to break down the various arguments that were used to condemn one set of controversial practices, and examine those that were used to defend another. His study allows us to see clear differences in reasoning and to test the assumptions made by each argument in turn. The result is an eye-opening explanation that makes it clear exactly how contemporaries resolved this apparent dichotomy – one that allows us to judge whether the opponents of slavery were clear-eyed idealists, or simply deployers of arguments that pandered to their own base economic interests.

Author : John Ashworth,David Brion Davis,Thomas L. Haskell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520077799

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The Antislavery Debate by John Ashworth,David Brion Davis,Thomas L. Haskell Pdf

"The marrow of the most important historiographical controversy since the 1970s."—Michael Johnson, University of California, Irvine "A debate of intellectual significance and power. The implications of these essays extend far beyond antislavery, important as that subject undoubtedly is. This will be of major importance to students of historical method as well as the history of ideas and reform movements."—Carl N. Degler, Stanford University

Author : David Brion DAVIS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674030251

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Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery by David Brion DAVIS Pdf

"This book views slavery in a new light and underscores the human tragedy at the heart of the American story."--Jacket

Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antislavery movements
ISBN : 1929545592

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Re-Examining the Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis Pdf

Author : Orlando Patterson
Publisher : I.B.Tauris
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Civilization, Classical
ISBN : 1850433585

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Freedom by Orlando Patterson Pdf

This work traces the origin and development of the idea of freedom in Western culture. It deals with three distinct forms of freedom: personal freedom; civic freedom (the right to participate in public life); and sovereign freedom (the right to exercise power over others).

Author : Jim Powell
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230612983

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Greatest Emancipations by Jim Powell Pdf

For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted for the vast majority of slaves in the west. Jim Powell offers some surprising insights and shows that while the abolition of slavery was essential to any free society, it wasn't the sole determing factor, since some societies that abolished slavery later embraced dictatorships. Jim Powell reveals the process and tremendous influence that slavery's eradication had on individual societies in the west.

Author : Orlando Patterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674916135

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Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson Pdf

In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South.

Author : Michael Salman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520240711

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The Embarrassment of Slavery by Michael Salman Pdf

This book examines the salience of slavery and abolition in the history of American colonialism and Philippine nationalism. The author explains the link between the globalization of nationalism and the spread of antislavery as a hegemonic ideology in the modern world. --book jacket.