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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

by David Brion Davis

National Book · 2014 · Winner
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KnopfHistoryNonfictionISBN 9780307269096

Award History

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National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction2014Winner

About This Book

David Brion Davis completes his monumental trilogy on slavery with a study of the decades surrounding emancipation in the United States, examining the dehumanizing logic of slavery and the contested meanings of freedom. A Pulitzer Prize winner for the trilogy as a whole, this final volume won the NBCC Award for Nonfiction.

About the Author

David Brion DavisAmerican

David Brion Davis (1927–2019) was an American historian specializing in slavery and abolition, best known for his trilogy The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966, Pulitzer Prize), The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (1975, National Book Award and Bancroft Prize), and The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (2014, National Book Critics Circle Award). A Sterling Professor at Yale and founder of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, he reshaped understanding of slavery's role in Western history, earning the National Humanities Medal in 2014 among numerous honors.

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