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From Homicide to Slavery: Studies in American Culture

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For more than 20 years David Brion Davis has been recognized as a number one authority at the moral and ideological responses to slavery within the Western world. From Homicide to Slavery, Davis’s first book of collected essays, brings in combination choices 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 ethical limits all through a period when American citizens believed they were breaking free from historical constraints and acquiring new powers of self-perfection. Topics vary 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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