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David Brion Davis war ein amerikanischer Historiker an der Universität Yale. Er war für seine Studien zur Sklaverei und zum Abolitionismus bekannt. Wikipedia

✵ 16. Februar 1927 – 14. April 2019

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“Nothing is proved by the expectation of some Northerners that the clause would eventually put an end to slavery, for there was widespread confusion of "slavery" with the "slave trade."”

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David Brion Davis

Both American and British abolitionists assumed that an end to slave imports would lead automatically to the amelioration and gradual abolition of slavery.
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, page 129. https://books.google.com/books?id=9lsvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA129