Career
In 1955, Davis joined the history faculty at Cornell University. In the 1960s, he published several works on slavery and its place in Western culture, as well as aspects of its history and reform movements in the United States.
In 1970, Davis moved to Yale, where he taught until 2001.
In 1998, Davis founded Yale's Gilder Lehrman Institute for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and directed it until 2004.
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