David Brion Davis, Who Helped Remake The Study Of Slavery, Dies At 92
The historian's trilogy, The Problem of Slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, among others. More than that, though, a colleague says Davis' work "shook up the field of history."
David Brion Davis, the celebrated historian whose works challenged the accepted wisdom about slavery, radically repositioning the brutal practice at the very heart of Western development, died Sunday at the age of 92. Yale University, where Davis taught for decades, said Monday that the scholar died of "natural causes."
"Over the course of his prodigious and extraordinary career, Professor Davis transformed the study of slavery and
