Three parts. Fifteen chapters with an epilogue conclusion. Every page is documented fully with footnotes providing a magnificent reference to all the people and topics that were discussed. David B. Davis published this book in 1966, which at the time was the apex of the civil rights movement and schools did not teach slavery. Actually being the first book in a complete trilogy, Davis aimed to answer question of why citizens of the West were ‘blind’ to all the injustices of slavery for centuries, but at the turn of 18th century decided to attack it head on. “For some two thousand years men thought of sin as a kind of slavery. One day they would come to think slavery as sin” (Davis 90). The book begins with the hypocrisy of slavery itself in America. How can a country …show more content…
It analyzed inconstant prospective of the value, danger, and licitness of slavery. Alongside that, Davis described how it contradicted institutions, failings of Christianization, and it compares slavery of which we know and the human bondage in Latin America. Davis used Part II mainly as a section to compare and contrast legitimacy and religious aspect of slavery. For example, he said that slavery was just about universal among Native Americans and early settlers had an extremely difficult time enslaving them because they were against the idea at the time. Part III dealt with civilian protests against slavery up until the year 1770 and literary, religious, and philosophical developments that contribute to the controversy in the 18th century. Now, finally, Davis ends this volume with a prophecy from John Woolman, a Quaker preacher and early abolitionist, which was very stimulating. “If Americans continued to be unfaithful to their high destiny, their descendants would face the awful retribution of God’s justice” (Davis 493). This forced me to look around, search, and scope as to see how this prophecy may have come