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. The essays are
interconnected by Davis's central concern with violence,
irrationality, and the definition of moral limits during a period when
Americans believed they were breaking free from historical constraints
and acquiring new powers of self-perfection. Topics range from a
socially revealing murder trial in 1843 to debates over capital
punishment, movements of counter-subversion, the iconography of race,
the cowboy as an American hero, the portrayal of violence in American
literature, the historiography of slavery, and the British and
American antislavery movements.
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ISBN
9780198021124
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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