Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South

Winner of the Lincoln Prize 
 Stampp's classic study of American slavery as a deliberately chosen, practical system of controlling and exploiting labor is one of the most important and influential works of American history written in our time. 
 "A thoughtful and deeply moving book. . . . Mr. Stampp wants to show specifically what slavery was like, why it existed, and what it did to the American people."--Bruce Catton

Author: Kenneth M. Stampp
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/17/1989
Pages: 435
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780679723073
About the Author
Kenneth M. Stampp was twice awarded John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, held two fellowships at the Huntington Library, and has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. A specialist in ninteenth-century American history, he is the author of many books on that period, including The Era of Reconstruction. Mr. Stampp died in 2009.