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Kenneth Stampp's 'The Peculiar Institution'
n Kenneth Stampp’s book, The Peculiar Institution, he discusses how slaves were a
“troublesome property”. Stampp also describes how slave owners made the slaves stand in fear as the owners used them to form an effective labor system.
There are many reasons why slaves would be considered a “troublesome property”. One reason is that some were content with being slaves, and others were not. Stampp discuses both sides to this argument. Many slave owners said that they understood their slaves and that they got along decently well. This is one reason why slaves would embrace slavery. Another is because the government would force them out of the state anyway. Stampp states that some proslavery writers would exaggerate how many slaves actually got
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