Top Quotes & Sayings by David Brion Davis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American historian David Brion Davis.
Last updated on November 19, 2024.
David Brion Davis

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.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor. — © David Brion Davis
We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.
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