Peculair Institution, The : Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South

Kenneth M. Stampp

BACKGROUND

This is a long and boring book which looks at slavery (the Peculiar Institution) in the Ante-Bellum (Latin for Pre-War) South. This guy is some history teacher from Berkley who wrote this in 1954 so he uses the word Negro to describe black people. He looks at the south and slavery….why it came about…and how it was operated. He does this in a lot of detail.

 

 

CHAPTER BY CHAPTER

Chapter 1 (The Setting)

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Chapter 2 (From day clean to First Dark)

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Chapter 3 (A troublesome property)

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Chapter 4 (To make them stand in fear)

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Chapter 5 (Chattels Personal)

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Section 9

Chapter 6 (Slavemongering)

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

 

Chapter 7 (Maintenance, Morbidity, Mortality)

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Chapter 8 (Between two cultures)

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Chapter 9 (Profit and Loss)

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Section 5

Chapter 10 (He who has endured)

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3