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After angrily demolishing Charles A. Beard’s economic interpretation of the Constitution, Robert E. Brown has left us with a surprisingly conventional view of the Critical Period;The latest example of this historiographical traditionalism is Kenneth M. Stampp’s Mr. Stampp will have none of this magnolias-and-happy-pickaninnies approach. .

By Kenneth M. Stampp. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. x + 436 + xii pp. Knopf. “As long as slavery showed no sign of decline or decay, it On many major matters Mr. Stampp’s evidence is indisputably correct, but his conclusions often seem to ignore the historical setting. Revisionists reject the findings of historians of their fathers’ generation, only to assert truths that would have … ranged from what was normally expected of free labor in that period to levels that were clearly excessive.” Far from being happy in chains, Negroes “longed for liberty and resisted bondage as much as any people could have done in their circumstances.” To keep these reluctant laborers under control, the whites had to resort to “rigid discipline”; “without the power to punish, which the state conferred upon the master, bondage could not have existed.” Though the “great majority” of slave-owners “preferred to use as little violence as possible,” acts of cruelty were not exceptional and “a certain amount of savagery was inevitable.” Many Southern planters made their profits from breeding slaves for the market, and the slave trade, though held in low repute by fastidious Southerners, was a necessary part of the whole system of Negro bondage. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-bellum South.

bearing the South’s most distinguished names” more frequently practiced miscegenation than any other white group; Mr. Stampp has the grace to label this generalization as only “probable.” His evidence that Southern masters bred slaves for the market is unconvincing, and his treatment of this sensitive point fails to take into consideration Avery Craven’s sensible observation that, in those days before birth control was widely known, all Southern families, white and black, were equally large. The classic study of American slavery as a deliberately chosen, practical system of controlling and exploiting labor.

Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South by Kenneth M. Stampp 1989 A single overriding issue exacerbated the regional and economic differences between North and South: slavery.

Before judging whether it was inhumane to feed the average slave a “peck of corn meal and three or four pounds of salt pork” each week, one would have to know what free white workers in the South were receiving at the same time.

The peculiar institution by Kenneth M. Stampp, unknown edition, 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.

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IN COLLECTIONS. B. Phillips’s argument in a book that is, in many ways, a highly commendable one. The exposition is largely phenomenal—in terms of the quotidian, apparent and experienced rather than in terms of latent processes and hidden mechanisms. The ideological climate of the South became increasingly fantasy-ridden and myth-laden: this certainly Shouldn't I have access to this article via my library? Download The Peculiar Institution Slavery In The Ante Bellum South ebook PDF or Read Online books in PDF, EPUB, ... Kenneth Milton Stampp ISBN : OCLC:299878096 Genre : File Size : 20.21 MB Format : PDF, Docs Download : 351 Read : 663 . $5.75. . Like his predecessor, Mr. Stampp has had to base his book chiefly upon records left by the large slaveholders, and, as a result, Parts of Mr. Stampp’s argument rest more upon inference and moral indignation than upon evidence. �=�#4��B�^��@T��avah���Wd�c��0��8Q��'�0��b�M��y]�$�rA��p�m�(��O+�݆,��d:�_��;��sy~�)z�jS��.=!V�RÄ� )g9{�

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South is a non-fiction book about slavery published in 1956, by academic Kenneth M. Stampp of the University of California, Berkeley and other universities. << /Length 5 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode >>
Rather puzzlingly, slave labour yielded satisfactory profit rates in a capitalistic world market.