The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South [Antebellum]

435, xiii pp. CONTENTS: I. The Setting; II. From Day Clean to First Dark; III. A Troublesome Property; IV. To Make Them Stand in Fear; V. Chattels Personal; VI. Slavemongering; VII. Maintenance, Morbidity, Mortality; VIII. Between Two Cultures; IX. Profit and Loss; X. He Who Has Endured; Manuscripts Consulted; Index.