Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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"
Table of Contents
1. The Setting
2. From Day Clean to First Dark
3. A Troublesome Property
4. To Make Them Stand in Fear
5. Chattels Personal
6. Slavemongering
7. Maintenance, Morbidity, Mortality
8. Between Two Cultures
9. Profit and Loss
10. He Who Has Endured