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discusses David Brion Davis’ 1986 book “Slavery and Human
Progress” in which the author looks at slavery in the much more
broad context than the experience of Africans sold into slavery
and working on plantations in the American South. He uses the
ideals of contributing to overall human progress to demonstrate
how slaveowners justified themselves and became wealthy in the
process. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to demonstrate how slaveowners justified themselves and became wealthy in the process. Bibliography lists 2 sources. BWslapro.rtf David Davis "Slavery and
Human Progress" By: C.B. Rodgers - November 2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly! Introduction One of the first
thing the student writing about David Brion Davis 1986 book "Slavery and Human Progress" is that the author looks at slavery in the much more broad context than the experience
of Africans sold into slavery and working on plantations in the American South. Davis, a history professor at Yale, goes so far as to demonstrate that throughout human history and
in various cultures, slavery was thought of as a form of human progress and that it was not until the 18th and 19th centuries that people began to see it
as a heinous institution. What the student reviewing the book will find is that Davis sees a number of connections that exist between humanitys ability to allow acts of oppression
to take place as if they were commonplace and acceptable and the ability to implement social change. Purpose of the Book Professor Davis clearly outlines the many ways in which
slavery was a truly ancient institution in which the "Arabs and their Muslim allies were the first people to develop a specialized, long-distance slave trade from sub-Saharan Africa. They wee
also the first people to view blacks as suited by nature for the lowest and most degrading forms of bondage" (pp. 8). Centuries later, the Europeans used the concept of
"progress" as a justification for enslaving Africans and establishing their own social, political, and economic dominance in the world. The student should understand that, as Davis explains it, such a
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