%��������� Search for other works by this author on: Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth: The Rise of Plantation Society in the Chesapeake Download The Peculiar Institution in PDF and EPUB Formats for free. 4 0 obj Lost your password? Kenneth. 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? Category: Divided Mastery. Like every intelligent modem American, he knows that psychological and anthropological studies demonstrate that “Negroes and whites have approximately the same intellectual potentialities.” From this premise he concludes “that innately Negroes Mr. Stampp’s book, so admirable in many ways, is long on morality, short on historical understanding. In 1860 the institution was “still functioning profitably.” The “average slaveholder earned a reasonably satisfactory return upon his investment in slaves” and “the owner of a large slave gang earned a proportionately higher return on his investment than the owner of a small gang.”In short, Mr. Stampp has challenged every point of U. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. It is also largely immanent, drawing most perhaps on plantation records, diaries and other primary sources with the criteria of selection and interpolation relatively implicit. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Current American historiography is atavistic. Yet this third force, outside the master-slave nexus, poses the most intriguing problems of theory and praxis.Since the book is wholly innocent of comparative perspective, certain outstanding features of the Old South as opposed to the general run of slave societies are neither brought out nor explained. Elkins’ hypotheses—not indicated in the book—go some way towards making sense of the ‘sambo’ or ‘Uncle Tom’ syndromes. Reviews. To purchase short term access, please sign in to your Oxford Academic account above. Current American historiography is atavistic. What the Negro slave himself thought, Mr. Stampp attempts to reconstruct from very sparse records, from the highly unrepresentative writings of escaped slaves like Frederick Douglass, and from “the logic of their situation.” No evidence is given to support his contention that “young males . By Kenneth M. Stampp. Please check your email address / username and password and try again. Please enter your username or email address. Kenneth M. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution. The reprinting of this book (first published in the usa in 1956) is no doubt due to the surge of Negro militancy in the usa. Most users should sign in with their email address. USD $47.00 Rather puzzlingly, slave labour yielded satisfactory profit rates in a capitalistic world market. IN COLLECTIONS. The reprinting of this book (first published in the Although the presentation of the abundant empirical materials is neat and lucid, the expository method is that of a report on social conditions rather than that of an analysis of social structure and culture as meaningful totalities. 436 pp. x��ݒ����)ھ�u����?�}� ��ex���,0Z�f@���_�5Sy�S[U=�Qp��++��oeUwϾ?_�g鿫�j��Y����?��}�Y���q9n���v��������n������p M�N�^%�[�O��l��?�܍I|��`�Ƨ��������rq���^����}}2>9[���悡�N�ɷ"O�ݍ�12ƿ�"�B�?��'�Ӌ��� $������;1{ �z7�I߈A����'C6�K݁���d]�'�%�0��_$a�ֿ(��`i�(��(���@��gA�܂c�O�����ǻ����viq@��\w�� �J���4���� ��=ޔ�Q Download eBook. . Slaves were poorly cared for; “most of them were limited to the bare necessities and lived at the subsistence level.” Far from serving as a school in which Negroes were civilized, slavery “was in its essence a process of infantilization”; it “took away from the African his native culture and gave him, in exchange, little more than his vocational training.” In fact, for the peculiar institution, which condemned the Southern blacks to bondage and made “the master class unfit to live easily in a society of free men,” there was only one justification—that it paid. . EUR €37.00 Echo of Its Time: The History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867–1933 The peculiar institution: slavery in the ante-bellum South Item Preview ... Stampp, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Milton) Publication date 1956 Topics Slavery Publisher New York, Knopf ... 14 day loan required to access EPUB and PDF files. Mr. Stampp’s argument that slavery was, despite the repeated declarations of so many slaveholders, a profitable institution rests, not upon the careful profit-and-loss accounting which led Charles Sydnor and Allan Nevins to the exactly opposite conclusion, but upon inference. Revisionists reject the findings of historians of their fathers’ generation, only to assert truths that would have seemed commonplace to their grandparents. N�$.N�%��M��h5"I���(��8�;�BA�y�^�AA琨��x+�j�x�#�:�\]� The exposition is largely phenomenal—in terms of the quotidian, apparent and experienced rather than in terms of latent processes and hidden mechanisms. �=�#4���B�^����@T���avah���Wd�c����0������8Q����'�0���b�M��y]�$�rA��p�m�(��O+�݆,��d:�_�����;����sy~�)z�jS��.=!V�RÄ� )g9{� New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1956. 66�1seHH�|)�_ˇ���$�0&��a��-��&1�`��H$�h��r�/Y�a�v�����8�-� ��;�h�R������yp9�¤��0��Q The manuscript records extant have little to say about the thousands of hired slaves or about the 400,000 urban slaves in the South. This content is only available as a PDF. His The Peculiar Institution it based upon many years of research among source materials that exceed in volume and scope those used by older scholars like Ulrich B. Phillips. %PDF-1.3 Kenneth M. Stampp of the University of California has written the most authoritative study of slavery in the ante-bellum South in our own time. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwideFor full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription. The Peculiar Institution Book also available for Read Online, mobi, docx and mobile and kindle reading. Given this approach, the structural coherence of slave society as a whole, particularly the way in which the non-slaveholding population (the great majority) came to share the slaveowners’ interests and values is overlooked. 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.

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