# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-brion-davis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:15:30.836Z

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name: "David Brion Davis"
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description: "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. He was a self-described \"leftish Democrat.\""
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birthDate: "1927-02-16"
deathDate: "2019-04-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump