Seymour Drescher

**Seymour J. Drescher** (1934-) Seymour Drescher, born 1934 in Bronx, New York is an American historian and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and Slavery. Seymour's parents Sydney (1907-1999) and Ava (1909-1999), of Polish Jewish background where both born after the turn of the last century, one from Galicia and one from Russian Poland before the 1914 war. They married in 1930 but had to flee Germany in August 1939 and …