The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture - Hardcover

DAVIS, David Brion.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801401011 ISBN 13: 9780801401015

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1966

Synopsis

A panoramic survey of the contradictory ideas and practices that led to the great slavery controversies in Europe and America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author analyzes the attitudes towards slavery in Greek, Roman and early Christian periods and the place of slavery in the thought of major philosophers. The author also provides a detailed analysis of the religious, philosophical, and literary sources of antislavery thought

About this title

About the Author:

David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and President of the Organization of American Historians. Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the National Book Award, and the Beveridge Award of the A.H.A., he is the author of several books, including Slavery and Human Progress and The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution.

Review:

"A magnificent work done in the finest tradition of historical scholarship."--C. Vann Woodward, Yale University

"The most eloquent and scholarly book on slavery we now have in English....Here is cross-cultural history at its best."--Virginia Quarterly Review

"A magnificent history of ideas....It will remain a magnificent contribution to intellectual and social history...[and] will be studied for decades to come."--Eugene D. Genovese, Journal of Southern History

"A helpful survey of the origins of the institution and its developments down to the end of the eighteenth century."--The Atlantic

"A large, immensely learned, readable, exciting, disturbing...volume, one of the most important to have been published on the subject of slavery in modern times."--M.I. Finley, The New York Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0801401011
• ISBN 13: 9780801401015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 505