David Brion Davis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who documented the centrality of slavery in Western culture through a landmark trilogy that made him among the world's most respected and influential scholars, has died. Starting in 1967 with "The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture," Davis traced the evolution of how the West regarded human bondage from ancient times to the present. "I became convinced that the problem of slavery transcended national boundaries in ways that I had not suspected," he wrote. Eric Foner, himself a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books about slavery and racism, would credit Davis with enlightening future generations. Davis wrote several other books, including "Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World," ''Slavery and Human Process" and "Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery."

Source: ABC News April 15, 2019 21:33 UTC