69:, who said that many Southern slave owners were 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 "a troublesome property", as they were called at the time.
96:. Stampp wrote, "Prior to the Civil War southern slavery was America's most profound and vexatious social problem. More than any other problem, slavery nagged at the public conscience; offering no easy solution...." (vii). The book was for Stampp not only about 19th-century history but a necessary examination for Americans in the 1950s, because "it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present", and "one must know what slavery meant to the Negro and how he reacted to it before one can comprehend his more recent tribulations" (vii).
131:" - defiance of slaves; Stampp asserts that African-American slaves actively resisted slavery, not just through uprisings and escape, but also through work slowdowns, feigning illness, damaging plantation machinery and work implements, theft, and other means. He lauds these actions as honorable resistance by slaves, which could be used as models by other oppressed groups, not least black Americans in the 1950s.
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knowing no other life, they accepted it without giving the matter much thought. Not that slavery was a good thing, mind you—but still, it probably hurt the
Negroes less than it did the whites. Indeed, the whites were really more enslaved than were the Negro slaves" (429). Stampp likens this claim to pro-slavery arguments before the Civil War, which were "based on some obscure and baffling logic" (429).
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Stampp's intent is to answer prior historians who had characterized slavery as a mostly benign, paternalistic tradition, helpful in many ways to the slaves, that encouraged racial harmony in the
Southern states. Stampp also condemns those who claim that "to the Negroes, slavery seemed natural;
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from the 17th through the mid-19th century, including demographics, lives of slaves and slaveholders, the
Southern economy and labor systems, the Northern and
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205:. King describes Stampp's "fascinating" depiction of "the psychological indoctrination that was necessary from the master's viewpoint to make a good slave".
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Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
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Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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response, slave trading, and political issues of the time.
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The
Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
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The
Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
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The
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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remains a central text in the study of U.S. slavery.
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275:Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
194:Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
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1628:Non-fiction books about American slavery
1541:Treatment of slaves in the United States
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113:" - background and demographics in the
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1478:Frederick Douglass and the White Negro
1299:Queen: The Story of an American Family
1219:Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
1251:Roots: The Saga of an American Family
1080:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
516:(c. 1745 Nigeria – 31 March 1797 Eng)
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1096:Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
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157:Maintenance, Morbidity and Mortality
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1307:Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons
585:(c. 1710 Portugal – 1734 Montreal)
538:Nunzio Otello Francesco Gioacchino
65:Stampp answers historians such as
52:University of California, Berkeley
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1584:Slave Songs of the United States
1088:The Underground Railroad Records
998:(? Puerto Rico – 1555 Venezuela)
272:King, Martin Luther Jr. (1967).
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278:. Beacon Press. p. 39.
122:From Day Clean to First Dark
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914:William Henry Singleton
719:Ellen and William Craft
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608:Juan Francisco Manzano
583:Marie-Joseph Angélique
491:Brigitta Scherzenfeldt
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456:Guðríður Símonardóttir
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129:A Troublesome Property
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164:Between Two Cultures
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1347:The Book of Negroes
1128:The Slave Community
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708:William Wells Brown
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1470:Unchained Memories
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