num_pages: 464
description: 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
language: English
title: The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
titlecomplete: The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
genres: Historical, Civil War, Politics, Social Justice, Nonfiction, American History, Race, History, Society, African American
ratings_count: 522
publisher: Vintage