Slavery and human progress.

National Review | March 8, 1985| | Copyright

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 ...

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