David Brion Davis
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 6 years ago |
| Date of birth | February 16,1927 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | Denver |
| Colorado | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | April 14,2019 |
| Died | Guilford |
| Connecticut | |
| United States | |
| Spouse | Toni Hahn Davis |
| Children | Sarah Brion Davis |
| Martha Davis Beck | |
| Adam Jeffrey Davis | |
| Noah Benjamin Davis | |
| Jeremiah Jonathan Davis | |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction |
| National Humanities Medal | |
| Parents | Clyde Brion Davis |
| Martha Wirt Davis | |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Dartmouth | |
| Bayard Rustin Educational Campus | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 936820 |
David Brion Davis Life story
David Brion Davis was an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, and founder and director of Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.