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Slavery posed a problem in the colonization and development of the Atlantic World, a problem that sparked contests over freedom, race, and emancipation stretching from New England to Brazil. This statement, which seems so pedestrian today, was far from established when David Brion Davis embarked upon his field-defining trilogy over fifty years ago. To understand the inspiration behind the series that The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation now brings to a close, one must look no further than Kenneth Stampp, whom Davis tells us galvanized him to become a historian of slavery and abolition. Writing against generations of scholars who had depicted slavery as a civilizing and humane institution, Stampp's The Peculiar Institution (1956) revealed the inescapable inhumanity of American slavery. When serendipity brought Stampp to Harvard as a visiting professor just as Davis was finishing up graduate school, the two struck up a close bond. Stampp clearly left an indelible imprint on Davis' thinking. Although Davis has provided us with a rich array of analytical insights over the span of ten monographs dedicated to black bondage-including one demonstrating the Atlantic nature of a
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- Author
- Paul J. Polgar
- Publisher
- John Hopkins University Press; Project MUSE; The Johns Hopkins University Press; JSTOR (ISSN 0048-7511)
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences