Quote of the day
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
David Brion Davis

Born: February 16, 1927
Died: April 14, 2019 (aged 92)
Bio: David Brion Davis was an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world.
Known for:
- The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966)
- Slavery and human progress (1984)







