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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

The Peculiar Institution Slavery in the

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    A Paperback / softback by Kenneth M. Stampp

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: 17/12/1989
      ISBN13: 9780679723073, 978-0679723073
      ISBN10: 0679723072

      Description

      Book 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

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