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“... rise of antislavery in Britain and America coincide with an intensification of racial thinking? David BrionDavis’s Inhuman Bondage throws light on the process by which slavery became exclusively black. There were many European precedents for white slavery, not only in the classical period but in the trading ...”

“... Civil War would not have taken place.’ Johnson manages to ignore the work of Edmund Morgan, David BrionDavis and numerous other scholars of the past thirty years who have demonstrated that slavery was an intrinsic element of American life almost from the beginning of the colonial era, and that it imparted a ...”

“... is usually credited with providing the philosophical foundation for abolitionism; according to David BrionDavis, by the mid-1700s ‘the classical justifications for slavery, already discredited by Montesquieu and Hutcheson, were being demolished by the arguments of Rousseau, Diderot and other ...”

“... Guided at times by Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony, Eugene Genovese, Eric Foner and David BrionDavis conceived slavery as a mode of organising labour, as well as a system of racial domination. This led to the recognition that advocates of ‘free labour’ had economic as well as humanitarian reasons for ...”