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Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Shortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFrom 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 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. This is a monumental and harrowing undertaking following the century of struggle, rebellion, and warfare that led to the eradication of slavery in the new world. An in-depth investigation, a rigorous colloquy of ideas, ranging from Frederick Douglass to Barack Obama, from British industrial “wage slavery” to the Chicago World’s Fair, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation is a brilliant conclusion to one of the great works of American history. Above all, Davis captures how America wrestled with demons of its own making, and moved forward.
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9780307269096 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 4, 2014, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Shortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFrom 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.
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9780307389695 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 6, 2015), cover price $16.95
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9780195128505 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 19, 2016, cover price $49.95
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9780195126716, titled "The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823" | 2 sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 15, 1999), cover price $56.00
9780801491566 | Cornell Univ Pr, January 1, 1975, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Examines the emergence of antislavery sentiments and activity in Britain and America in light of prevailing social and ideological conditions.
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9780195140736 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 1, 2006, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Links the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism in a history of the institution of slavery in the United States.
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9781433201356 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 1, 2007), cover price $99.00
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9780313273018, titled "The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age" | Greenwood Pub Group, May 1, 1990, cover price $49.95 | also contains The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age
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9780271031255 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, September 4, 2007, cover price $35.95
9780271016467 | Reprint edition (Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, February 1, 1997), cover price $32.95
9780669014761 | D C Heath & Co, September 1, 1979, cover price $26.76
Product Description: In this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an illuminating perspective on American slavery. Starting with a long view across the temporal and spatial boundaries of world slavery, he traces continuities from the ancient world to the era of exploration, with its expanding markets and rise in consumption of such products as sugar, tobacco, spices, and chocolate, to the conditions of the New World settlement that gave rise to a dependence on the forced labor of millions of African slaves...read more
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9780674011823 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 4, 2003, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A professor of history focuses on 1819 America, identifying a convergence of forces that pre-figured a looming conflict over slavery, including the expansion of slavery in the U.
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9780674019850 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 30, 2006, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an illuminating perspective on American slavery.
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9780300088144 | Yale Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $69.00
Presents a history of slavery with emphasis on the role of the church
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9780735103719 | Replica Books, December 1, 2001, cover price $36.25 | About this edition: Presents a history of slavery with emphasis on the role of the church
9780195034394 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 1, 1984, cover price $40.00 | also contains Bloomberg's New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City | About this edition: Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation from ancient times to the twentieth century.
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9780195037333 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 9, 1986), cover price $27.95
The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery Through the Civil War
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9780195116694 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 15, 1998, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Through a wealth of letters, speeches, and other primary documents, a wide-ranging survey of American history up to Reconstruction, co-written by a Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner, presents the voices of those who shaped the past.
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9780195116700 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 13, 2000, cover price $29.99
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9780875981130 | Pierpont Morgan Library, September 1, 1995, cover price $25.95
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9780674768055 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Analyzes American attitudes and reactions to revolutions
Product Description: For more than twenty years David Brion Davis has been recognized as a leading authority on the moral and ideological responses to slavery in the Western world. From Homicide to Slavery, Davis's first book of collected essays, brings together selections reflecting his wide-ranging interests in colonial history, Afro-American history, the social sciences, and American literature...read more
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9780195054187 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 24, 1988), cover price $61.00 | About this edition: For more than twenty years David Brion Davis has been recognized as a leading authority on the moral and ideological responses to slavery in the Western world.
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9780195056396 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 20, 1988), cover price $39.99
Product Description: Great book!
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9780879351151 | Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, December 1, 1986, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Great book!
Product Description: For more than twenty years David Brion Davis has been recognized as a leading authority on the moral and ideological responses to slavery in the Western world. From Homicide to Slavery, Davis's first book of collected essays, brings together selections reflecting his wide-ranging interests in colonial history, Afro-American history, the social sciences, and American literature...read more
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9780195040890 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 20, 1986, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: For more than twenty years David Brion Davis has been recognized as a leading authority on the moral and ideological responses to slavery in the Western world.
Product Description: The material in this book represents in large part lectures delivered at the invitation of the faculty and trustees of the Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, on the James Sprunt foundation. For publication, these lectures were revised and in some cases amplified...read more
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9780807109229 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 1, 1970, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by Davis, David Brion
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9780807110348 | Olympic Marketing Corp, September 1, 1982, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: The material in this book represents in large part lectures delivered at the invitation of the faculty and trustees of the Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, on the James Sprunt foundation.
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