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****Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction **** Shortlisted for the **2014 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature**From the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly fifty years in the making.David Brion Davis is one of the foremost historians of the twentieth century, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and nearly every award given by the historical profession. Now, with *The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation,* Davis brings his staggeringly ambitious, prizewinning trilogy on slavery in Western culture to a close. Once again, 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, and he offers a surprising analysis of the complex and misunderstood significance of colonization—the project to move freed slaves back to Africa—to members of both races and all political persuasions. He vivid

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Author

Davis, David Brion

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385351652

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Fiction, Sociology

Rating

4.13 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14