Quote of the day
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
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)