Research Catalog

Title

The peculiar institution : slavery in the ante-bellum South.

Author

Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton)

Publication

New York : Knopf, 1956.

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Additional Authors

Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991

Description

xi, 435, xiii pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Prior to the Civil War southern slavery was America's most profound and vexatious social problem. More than any other problem, slavery nagged at the public conscience; offering no easy solution, it demanded statesmanship of uncommon vision, wisdom, and boldness. This institution deserves close study if only because its impact upon the whole country was so disastrous"--Preface.

Alternative Title

Slavery in the ante-bellum South

Subjects

• Slavery
• Southern States
• African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions
• History
• Slaves > Social conditions
• Race relations
• Southern States > History
• Southern States > Race relations
• Slavery > Southern States > History
• African Americans > Social conditions
• Slavery > Economic aspects > Southern States
• Slaves > Southern States > Social conditions

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Composed, printed, and bound by The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts. Paper manufactured by S. D. Warren Company, Boston, Massachusetts. Typography and binding designs are by Warren Chappell."

Bibliography (note)

• "Manuscripts consulted, and their locations": pages 431-436 Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

The setting -- From day clean to first dark -- A troublesome property -- To make them stand in fear -- Chattels personal -- Slavemongering -- Maintenance, morbidity, mortality -- Between two cultures -- Profit and loss -- He who has endured.

ISBN

• 0679723072
• 9780679723073

LCCN

56005800

OCLC

• ocm00223212
• 223212

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries