The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South by Kenneth M. Stampp was successful in providing a piece of historical knowledge to its readers. Stamp explored the how slavery began, its conditions, and the impact it had on America. He covers more than the simple topics of the lives of slaves and slaveholders. Stampp additionally portrays the immoral and aggressive ‘peculiar institute’ that was created little by little over time for social, political, and economic advantage of the white people. He claimed that, “Southerners did not create the slave system all at once… and all the while most of them were more or less blind to the ultimate consequence of the choices they were making.” (6) It is argued that Stampp wrote his book as