Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
Date Published: 1956
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Sound copy. Pages tanned and with with underlining, brackets and notations, edges soiled. Cover is worn with scuffs, creases, soiling and edge wear. Spine is creased. Solid book and good reading copy, 460 pages. 460 p. Includes index. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 460 p. read more
Binding: Perfect Bound Paper
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1956
Description: Good + to Very Good- Small Trade Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Light to moderate wear. PON on FEP. BInding tight, pages clean. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1956
Description: Good- Ex-Libris. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Wraps have light wear and creasing. Pages are clean & text has underlining in the first 45 pages. Previous owner name on half-title page. All pages secure in binding. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1989-12-17
ISBN-13:9780679723073ISBN:0679723072
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Publisher: Random Houses/Vintage Bk Ed, NY
Date Published: 1956
Description: small illus on title-page. GOOD Condition, ep corner clipped. 4x7" Paper Covers 436+pg Every aspect of slavery...How worked, resisted bondage, . Has index. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Rept
Publisher: RandomHs/Vintage Bk Ed, NY
Date Published: 1956
Description: small illus on title-page. Gd Cond. 4x7" Paper Covers 436+pg Every aspect of slavery...How worked, resisted bondage, . Has index. read more
"When Professor Stampp wrote this book in the 1950's, he changed how Americans viewed the institution of slavery in the South. It is a must reading for anyone interest in the American South and slavery in the years just prior to the Civil War."
"This was the first history of slavery in the USA which I ever read, it having been recommended in junior year American History at Maine South High School. The copy read was from the library.
The major social crises I was aware of while growing up were the Cold War, overpopulation, nuclear contamination, environmental destruction and domestic race and class relations. Under the rubric of the Cold War are included the various cases of aggression by our government against such countries as Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Laos, Vietnam etc. While still a grade-schooler I pretty much took everything the way the Chicago Daily News, Time and Life covered them. By high school, however, the mainstream media and my understandings of the nature of these problems had radically diverged.
My nuclear family lived in unincorporated Kane County until I was ten, but Dad's mom and her husband, grandfather having died, lived in Park Ridge, next to the city. Weekend visits to their home on Prairie Avenue were common. When there, often spending the night, one of my jobs was to go to Thompson's grocery for the paper. Much of my existential understanding of what was going on in the South during the fifties and early sixties comes from reading those papers on the way home. The pictures especially got to me: policemen with dogs attacking what appeared to be ordinary persons. It was incredible, upsetting and it instilled in me a prejudice against the southern states at an early age. Martin Luther King had yet to come to Daley's Chicago and the extent of northern hostility was as yet unapparent to me.
By the time I got to high school American history and Stampp's book, things had changed. Black power and black separatism contested with Gandhian integrationism both in the political movements I identified with and in my own heart. My natural inclinations have always been nonviolent and peaceful. Stampp helped me understand why so many black people were so fed up."
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