Cover of The peculiar institution

The peculiar institution

by Kenneth M. Stampp

1956 436 pages eng

In ten sparkling chapters the book details and illuminates every aspect of slavery....Slavery is viewed not as a method of regulating race relations, not as an arrangement that was in its essence paternalistic, but as a practical system of controlling and exploiting labor. How the slaves worked, how…

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