Dr. David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus and founder and Director Emeritus of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, Slavery and Human Progress, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, and many other books. For his work, he has received the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the American Historical Associations' Albert J. Beveridge Award, the National Book Award, and the 2004 Bruce Catton Prize of the Society of American Historians for lifetime achievement, among other awards and recognitions.

Print Materials:

Cooper, Frederick and Rebecca J. Scott. Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966.

———. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.

———. The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

———. Slavery and Human Progress. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

———. From Homicide to Slavery: Studies in American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

———. In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.

———. Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.

———. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Drescher, Seymour. The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

———. Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Eltis, David. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

———. Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Morality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997.

Fogel, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman. Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. Boston: Little Brown, 1974.

Fogel, Robert Williams. Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. New York: Norton, 1989.

Klein, Herbert S. and Ben Vinson. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Klein, Herbert S. The Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Scott, Rebecca J. Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Links:
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
http://slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces

In Motion: The African American Migration Experience: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
An exhibition by The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=1

David Brion Davis: The New York Review of Books
Online book reviews by David Brion Davis
http://www.nybooks.com/authors/169