The Peculiar Institution by Kenneth M. Stampp
Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
It offers a rigorous revisionist analysis of slavery in the antebellum South, rejecting earlier romanticized accounts and showing the system as fundamentally coercive, economically central to southern society, and defended by a paternalist rhetoric that masked its brutality. Drawing on legal, economic, and social evidence, the book recounts everyday realities of forced labor, discipline, and limited autonomy while highlighting patterns of resistance, flight, and family strategies among enslaved people. It argues that slavery's entrenched institutions and interests shaped Southern politics and culture and helped make conflict and eventual abolition inevitable.
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- 1956
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- American
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- English
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