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        1. Many are sharing remembrances of the late David Brion Davis today. My open-access review of the last volume of his Problem of Slavery trilogy is available online. brill.com/abstract/journals/nwig/89/3-4/article-p295_4.xml
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        Davis's personal impact on my scholarship goes much deeper than a single review can communicate. The title of my first book, The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery, is an homage to his works that gets closer to conveying the debt I owe.
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      But what I'll most remember is the kindness he showed me one day by taking me to lunch at his favorite New Haven deli, despite his failing health, and personally giving me a proof copy of the page from his book that cites my work. Kindness in academia matters, & he embodied it.
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    Noting my connection to Rice, where my late colleague Thomas Haskell spent his career, Davis also said, of Haskell, "That's quite the debate we had," with a twinkle in his eye. Indeed it was. I still teach it to graduate students. amazon.com/Antislavery-Debate-Capitalism-Abolitionism-Interpretation/dp/0520077792
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