ABSTRACT
There seems little purpose in attempting to summarize the achievements of Davis which we have spent a large volume in presenting. But there are a few aspects that we would like to emphasize and many judgments written about him after his death that must be reassembled. As a person he was a social crusader who preferred the pen to the platform in the market square.
As a Quaker he abhorred physical strife as strongly as he liked to strive mentally with his fellow men. He was a true grandson of Lucretia Mott, ardent emancipationist. In his chapter on the United States in Hugh Robert Mill’s ‘The International Geography’ (1899) Davis wrote: ‘Better than the plain (Southern Coastal Plain) should never have grown a pound of cotton, better that its fertile strata should never have emerged from the waters of the sea, than that slavery and its dire long-lasting consequences should have come upon the United States’.
( Bowman, 1934, p. 178)