Word: stampp
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...remained a dominant force in slave historiography for 30 years. Despite WPA interviews with former slaves in the 1930s and the work of a number of black historians, which went largely ignored, it was not until the period between Gunnar Myrdal's American Dilemma in 1944 and Kenneth Stampp's The Peculiar Institution (1956) that emphasis began to be placed on environment and the effects that slavery had on blacks and black culture. The stereotype of childlike, lackadaisical behavior of plantation blacks remained, though it now began to be explained away in all sorts of sympathetic, guilt-ridden...
...plantation is morally irrelevant to the outrage of slavery, the psychological anguish it caused, and the agonized voices of indi vidual slaves that have come down from the dark past. Yet the authors, generally moderate, are quite merciless when dealing with what they regard as the fumbling ignorance of Stampp, Elkins and Phillips on the subject of economics and statistics. The message is perfectly clear. Historians who do not have these tools could grope for another hundred years in subjective confusion and never be able even to evaluate or rebut the work of the cliometricians...
Belligerent Porcupine. Of the many poor black children whom Lois Stalvey came to know and tried to help, none was more pitiful than Almira Stampp. When Noah and Almira were in the second grade, their white teacher made Almira stand in a wastebasket all afternoon-because, Noah explained, "she wouldn't say 'Yes, ma'am.'" Refused permission to go to the bathroom, Almira wet her pants. "See the pig in the pigpen," said the teacher to the class. Treatment like this inevitably had its effect on Almira (whose mother was a drug addict and whose father...