In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300088144)

In this broad-ranging book, the pre-eminent authority on the history of slavery meditates on the origins, experience, and legacy of this "peculiar institution." David Brion Davis begins with a substantial and highly personal introduction in which he discusses some of the major ideas and individuals that have shaped his approach to history. He then presents a series of interlocking essays that cover topics including slave resistance, the historical construction of race, and the connections between the abolitionist movement and the struggle for women's rights. The book also includes essays on such major figures as Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as appreciations of two of the finest historians of the twentieth century: C. Vann Woodward and Eugene D. Genovese. Gathered together for the first time, these essays present the major intellectual, historical, and moral issues essential to the study of New World slavery and its devastating legacy.

Author: David Brion Davis
ISBN-10: 0300088140
ISBN-13: 9780300088144
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2001
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.40w x 1.19d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/01/2001 pg. 448
New York Review of Books 05/23/2002 pg. 56
Books & Culture 07/01/2002 pg. 28
Christian Century 11/06/2002 pg. 42
Choice 07/01/2002 pg. 1998