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A Review of The Peculiar Institution

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this paper properly! Introduction There has doubtless been a great deal of historical examination of the condition of slavery in the history of the world, as well as the  history of the United States and particularly the South. The South was the primary keeper of slavery in this country, and as such stands to offer the historian a great  deal of material for examination in regards to the institution of slavery in the United States. Kenneth Milton Stampp apparently knows this and thus decided to focus a work on  this particular time period and region. In the following paper we examine Stampps work titled "The Peculiar Institution : Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South." The Peculiar Institution Perhaps first  and foremost we note that Stampp perceives the slave as the oppressed individual. He sees that their oppression and mistreatment was due to an economic system that relied on them.  And, in all honesty, while it was an incredibly harsh reality, it was one which supported a profitable endeavor on the part of the South. In his book he primarily  argues that this institution was so powerfully a part of the economic system that it was something which proved incredibly profitable for many planters, and at least somewhat profitable for  many others, a reality not truly experienced in any other institution at the time. It is interesting to note that many historians believed that left to its own course  slavery would have come to an end through the economic implications. But, Stampp clearly believed that because it was such a profitable business it would likely never have come to  an end without active involvement. We also note that Stampp addresses factory work, and how the slave could have been used profitably in such institutions of employment. He illustrates