The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-bellum South

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Vintage Books, 1956 - History - 435 pages
Slavery is viewed as a system of enforced labor, rather than merely as a division between the races; and the problems of today's Negro are directly related to his past treatment.

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The Setting
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From Day Clean to First Dark
34
A Troublesome Property
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Copyright

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A native of Milwaukee, Kenneth Stampp received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1941 and then taught at the University of Arkansas and the University of Maryland. In 1945 he joined the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is currently Morrison Professor Emeritus of American History. Stampp has served as Harmsworth Professor at Oxford, Commonwealth Lecturer at the University of London, Fulbright Professor at the University of Munich, and visiting professor at Harvard University and Colgate University and Williams College. A past president of the Organization of American Historians, in 1993 he received the Lincoln Prize from the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute of Gettysburg College. Stampp touched off a revolution in the study of slavery with the publication of The Peculiar Institution (1956), which vigorously refutes the long-prevailing Dunning-Phillips interpretation and demolishes a host of myths about the master-slave relationship. His further works on the sectional conflict and its causes established him as a leading authority on that subject as well.

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TitleThe Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-bellum South
Volume 253 of Vintage book
AuthorKenneth Milton Stampp
Editionreprint
PublisherVintage Books, 1956
ISBN0394702530, 9780394702537
Length435 pages
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