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David Brion Davis
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“Writing home in 1946, he told his parents that he wanted to study history because he hoped that a knowledge of the past might “make people stop and think before blindly following some bigoted group to make the world safe for Aryans, Democrats or Mississippians.”
David Brion Davis (1927–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is proved by the expectation of some Northerners that the clause would eventually put an end to slavery, for there was widespread confusion of "slavery" with the "slave trade." Both American and British abolitionists assumed that an end to slave imports would lead automatically to the amelioration and gradual abolition of slavery.”
David Brion Davis (1927–2019) first seen 1770 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, page 129.
“One cannot question the genuineness of Jefferson’s liberal dreams. He was one of the first statesmen in any part of the world to advocate concrete measures for restricting and eradicating Negro slavery.”
David Brion Davis (1927–2019) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson, by Henry Wiencek, Smithsonian Magazine, (October 2012)