Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)