In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery

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In this broad-ranging book, the preeminent authority on the history of slavery meditates on the orgins, experience, and legacy of this "peculiar institution." David Brion Davis begins with a substantial and highly personal introduction in which he discusses some of the major ideas and individuals that have shaped his approach to history. He then presents a series of interlocking essays that cover topics including slave resistance, the historical construction of race, and the connections between the abolitionist movement and the struggle for women's rights. The book also includes essays on such major figures as Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as appreciations of two of the finest historians of the twentieth century: C. Vann Woodward and Eugene D. Genovese. Gathered together for the first time, these essays present the major intellectual, historical, and moral issues essential to the study of New World slavery and its devastating legacy. Book jacket.

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From Religion to Slavery
12
An American Jeremiah
19
Martin Luther King Jr
29
Religion and American Culture
37
American Jews and the Meritocratic Experiment
47
The Slave Trade and the Jews
63
Jews and Blacks in America
73
Historians of Two Generations
93
The Labyrinth of Slavery
178
The Significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
189
The Benefit of Slavery
205
Capitalism Abolitionism and Hegemony
217
The Violence of Slavery as Experienced
235
The White World of Frederick Douglass
237
Life and Death in Slavery
248
The Ends of Slavery
260

C Vann Woodward
95
A Tribute to Woodward
108
Eugene D Genovese
110
Origins
121
At the Heart of Slavery
123
Slaves in Islam
137
A Big Business
151
The Triumph of the Country
165
White Wives and Slave Mothers
277
Terror in Mississippi
290
From the Construction of Race to the American Dilemma
305
The Culmination of Racial Polarities and Prejudice
323
The American Dilemma
330
The Other Revolution
359
Credits
377
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David Brion Davis is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. His previous books include The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, which won a National Book Award and the Bancroft Prize, and The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture which won a Pulitzer Prize.

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