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The Peculiar Institution
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I found Kenneth Stampp’s The Peculiar Institution clearly explores that the creation of the institution of slavery evolved, opposed to being consciously constructed by Europeans. He discussed demographics, conspicuous consumption, capitalism, territories, classes politics and the general treatment of slaves during the ante-bellum period. What I found most interesting about this book was that Stampp, being an African American male, took an objective viewpoint on slavery and suggests that it was a practical system of controlling and exploiting labor and not a method of regulating race relations, or an arrangement that was simply paternalistic. Stampp describes what slavery was really like, why it existed and what it did to the American people. From what I understand, the economy was founded on the production of slave-grown crops, benefiting everyone with the exception of the enslaved. These slave-grown staples such as tobacco, rice sugar and cotton were sold on the international market, thus brining capital into the colonies. This slave-produced capital eventually funded an economic infrastructure upon which today’s American economy rests.
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Title: The Peculiar Institution
Words: 819
Rating: None
Pages: 3.3
submitted by: Phyljeff
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