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According to Wikipedia, David Brion Davis was an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, and founder and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

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The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966) (599)
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (1975) (453)
Slavery and Human Progress (1984) (224)
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (2008) (153)
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (2008) (153)
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion: An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature (1960) (139)
The Antislavery debate : capitalism and abolitionism as a problem in historical interpretation (1993) (130)
The slave power conspiracy and the paranoid style (1970) (92)
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (2014) (87)
The fear of conspiracy : images of un-American subversion from the Revolution to the present (1971) (87)
"Some Mute Inglorious Milton": History by the Illiterate@@@Our Portion of Hell. Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights.@@@All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. (1975) (77)
Constructing Race: A Reflection (1997) (65)
Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies: A Comparison of St. Domingue and Cuba. (1972) (52)
Looking at Slavery from Broader Perspectives (2000) (51)
The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought (1962) (43)
GOOD PEOPLE DOING DIRTY WORK: A STUDY OF SOCIAL ISOLATION* (1984) (41)
Reflections on Abolitionism and Ideological Hegemony (1987) (35)
The Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787-1861 (1957) (31)
A Review of the Conflicting Theories on the Slave Family. (1997) (27)
Revolutions : Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations (1992) (22)
Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values (1958) (22)
From Homicide to Slavery: Studies in American Culture (1986) (21)
Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery (2003) (20)
James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement, 1821-1823 (1960) (19)
Ante-bellum reform (1967) (19)
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823 (1975) (19)
James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement, 1823-1833 (1961) (19)
Some Recent Directions in American Cultural History (1968) (17)
Ten-Gallon Hero (1954) (16)
Antebellum American Culture: An Interpretive Anthology (1996) (14)
Some Ideological Functions of Prejudice in Ante-Bellum America (1963) (13)
Violence in American Literature (1966) (13)
In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery (2002) (12)
Slavery and the Post-World War II Historians. (1974) (11)
The Culmination of Racial Polarities and Prejudice (1999) (10)
New Sidelights on Early Antislavery Radicalism (1971) (10)
The New England Origins of Mormonism (1953) (9)
The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War (2000) (9)
The Emancipation Moment (1994) (7)
Antebellum American Culture (1979) (6)
African Economic History: What is it? (1987) (5)
The American Family and Boundaries in Historical Perspective (1979) (5)
British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: Capitalism, Abolitionism, and Hegemony (1988) (5)
The Significance of Excluding Slavery from the Old Northwest in 1787 (1988) (4)
Antislavery or Abolition?@@@Abolitionism: A New Perspective. (1973) (3)
Abolitionists and the Freedmen: An Essay Review (1965) (3)
James Madison: The President, 1809-1812 (1957) (3)
Homicide in American Fiction , 1798 – 1860 (2)
World War II and Memory (1990) (2)
Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation (2017) (1)
Slavery, Emancipation, and Progress (2012) (1)
Of Human Progress and Intellectual Apostasy@@@Slavery and Human Progress. (1987) (1)
Murder in New Hampshire (1955) (1)
1. Slavery and Sin: The Cultural Background (1965) (1)
Impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions (2020) (1)
Review Essay Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements Charles H. Lippy Peter W. Williams (1991) (1)
Christianity and Slavery in the British West Indies 1750-1865 (2016) (1)
Review Essay: Putting New World Slavery in Perspective (2007) (1)
The Impact of British Abolitionism on American Sectionalism (2011) (1)
In the Image of God (2001) (1)
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective (2009) (0)
Espartaco en el Caribe (2010) (0)
Overviews and Itineraries in the Text II - Equality, Slavery, Violence, Citizenship: Notes on a Symposium (1992) (0)
Foreword: The Rocky Road to Freedom: Crucial Barriers to Abolition in the Antebellum Years (2010) (0)
Medicine in the canadian campaign of the revolutionary war: the journal of Doctor Samuel Fisk Merrick. (1970) (0)
Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor in the Humanities (2015) (0)
Reconstructing Historical Theory from the Debris of the Cold War (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Reviews of Books:Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves Ira Berlin (2004) (0)
The Role of Ideology in the Anglo-American "Connection"@@@Men and Brothers: Anglo-American Antislavery Cooperation.@@@British Antislavery, 1833-1870. (1973) (0)
Use inductive reasoning to evaluate historical arguments Draw conclusions about the strength of different types of historical evidence Develop a deeper understanding of the slave trade as terrain contested by diverse (2006) (0)
PARTNERS IN POLITICAL ABOLITIONISM: THE LIBERTY PARTY AND THE WESLEYAN METHODIST CONNECTION (2013) (0)
1967 AWARD: ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN WESTERN CULTURE (1995) (0)
Book Reviews: Thaddeus Stevens, Scourge of the South, by Fawn M. Brodie. (1960) (0)
Editorial (2010) (0)
Policing for the People (2007) (0)
III. THE STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE A REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA (1990) (0)
1. Declaring Equality: Sisterhood and Slavery (2017) (0)
ERSKINE CLARKE. Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 601. $35.00 (2006) (0)
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823@@@They Who Would Be Free: Blacks' Search for Freedom, 1830-1861 (1975) (0)
Ira Berlin. Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. 374. $29.95 (2004) (0)
Negotiating a Settlement in the Long War of Slavery@@@The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823. (1975) (0)
British Abolitionism: A Forum (2007) (0)
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 177-1823 (1976) (0)
II. AMERICA, FRANCE, AND THE ANXIETIES OF INFLUENCE (1990) (0)
The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census. By Philip D. Curtin. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. xix + 338 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $7.50.) (1970) (0)
Reflections: Intellectual Trajectories: Why People Study What they Do (2009) (0)
Specific Purposes and the General past: Slaves and Slavery@@@The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style@@@The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation@@@Industrial Slavery in the Old South (1972) (0)
Comments on Methodism, Abolitionism, and Popular History (2007) (0)
Freedom and Its Limitations in American Life. By David M. Potter. Ed. by Don E. Fehrenbacher. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976. xi + 89 pp. Notes and bibliography. $6.50.) (1978) (0)
I. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE MEANING OF EQUALITY (1990) (0)
Reviews of Books:The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic Richard S. Newman (2003) (0)
The Fruits of Africa: Slavery, Emancipation, and Afro-American Culture@@@Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory & the Foundations of Black America@@@Slavery and Human Progress@@@From Homicide to Slavery: Studies in American Culture@@@Crusade Against Slavery: Friends, Foes, and Reforms, 1820-1860 (1988) (0)
William Gervase Clarence-Smith. Islam and the Abolition of Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. xxvi, 293. $29.95 (2007) (0)
The Novel of Violence in America.@@@Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860. (1958) (0)
Richard S. Newman. The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 256. Cloth $45.00, paper $18.95 (2003) (0)
Imagination in Nineteenth-Century American Abolition (1979) (0)
The Debate over Slavery: Stanley Elkins and His Critics (1974) (0)
Dr. David Brion Davis: Slavery and Human Progress (March 19, 1984) (1984) (0)

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