The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South is a non-fiction book about slavery published in 1956, by academic Kenneth M. Stampp of the University of California, Berkeley and other universities. The book describes and analyzes multiple facets of slavery in the American South from the 17th through the mid-19th century, including demographics, lives of slaves and slaveholders, the Southern economy and labor systems, the Northern and abolitionist response, slave trading, and political issues of the time.
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| - The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South is a non-fiction book about slavery published in 1956, by academic Kenneth M. Stampp of the University of California, Berkeley and other universities. The book describes and analyzes multiple facets of slavery in the American South from the 17th through the mid-19th century, including demographics, lives of slaves and slaveholders, the Southern economy and labor systems, the Northern and abolitionist response, slave trading, and political issues of the time.
- The Peculiar Institution (sous-titré Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South ; littéralement L'étrange institution : L'esclavage dans le Sud avant la guerre) est un livre de non-fiction sur l'esclavage publié en 1956, par de l'université de Californie à Berkeley et d'autres universités. Le livre décrit et analyse les multiples facettes de l'esclavage dans le Sud des États-Unis du XVIIe au milieu du XIXe siècle, y compris la démographie, la vie des esclaves et des esclavagistes, l'économie et les systèmes de travail du Sud, la réponse abolitionniste et du Nord, le commerce des esclaves et les questions politiques de l'époque.
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| - The Peculiar Institution (sous-titré Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South ; littéralement L'étrange institution : L'esclavage dans le Sud avant la guerre) est un livre de non-fiction sur l'esclavage publié en 1956, par de l'université de Californie à Berkeley et d'autres universités. Le livre décrit et analyse les multiples facettes de l'esclavage dans le Sud des États-Unis du XVIIe au milieu du XIXe siècle, y compris la démographie, la vie des esclaves et des esclavagistes, l'économie et les systèmes de travail du Sud, la réponse abolitionniste et du Nord, le commerce des esclaves et les questions politiques de l'époque. Stampp répond à des historiens comme , qui affirme que de nombreux propriétaires d'esclaves du Sud traitaient correctement leurs esclaves. Si la vie des esclaves pouvait être aussi bonne voire meilleure que celle des travailleurs pauvres du Nord, Stampp dévoile ce traitement comme une stratégie égoïste qui facilitait la vie de certains esclaves pour éviter l'insoumission des autres ou éviter d'éventuelles actions en justice pour mauvais traitement des esclaves. Stampp soutient que ce traitement n'a guère convaincu les esclaves que leur vie était acceptable et que l'insoumission et l'opposition étaient courantes, faisant des esclaves un « bien importun », comme on les appelait à l'époque. L'expression « institution étrange » pour désigner l'esclavage du Sud a été introduite en 1830 par le grand politicien du Sud John C. Calhoun, puis s'est répandue.
- The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South is a non-fiction book about slavery published in 1956, by academic Kenneth M. Stampp of the University of California, Berkeley and other universities. The book describes and analyzes multiple facets of slavery in the American South from the 17th through the mid-19th century, including demographics, lives of slaves and slaveholders, the Southern economy and labor systems, the Northern and abolitionist response, slave trading, and political issues of the time. Stampp answers historians such as Ulrich Phillips, who said that many Southern slave owners were very kind to their slaves and provided well for them. While it was sometimes known for slaves to have lives as good as or better than those of poor Northern workers, Stampp exposes this behavior as a selfish strategy to ease the lives of some slaves in order to prevent dissent among the rest, or to prevent possible legal action for mistreatment of slaves. Stampp argues that this treatment did little to convince slaves that their lives were acceptable, and that dissent and opposition were common, making slaves, as they were called at the time, "a troublesome property". The use of the expression "peculiar institution" – "peculiar" here means "special", possibly with a positive implication – to refer to Southern slavery began in 1830 with leading Southern politician John C. Calhoun, and became widespread.
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