E. David Davis (Libros)

E. David Davis Libros

David Brion Davis fue un destacado historiador intelectual y cultural estadounidense, especializado en la esclavitud y la abolición en el mundo occidental. Su obra exploró los intrincados vínculos entre factores religiosos e ideológicos, condiciones materiales e intereses políticos. A través de sus numerosos libros y ensayos, desempeñó un papel crucial en la transmisión de complejas investigaciones históricas a una amplia audiencia. La erudición de Davis avanzó significativamente la comprensión de cómo evolucionan los valores políticos y se conectan con las circunstancias históricas.

The Problem Of Slavery In The Age Of Emancipation

422 páginas
15 horas de lectura

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.