The folks at the Berkeley’s public affairs office confirmed for me today that Kenneth M. Stampp died. His book The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (1956) is required reading in my program and rightly so. The view into slavery was groundbreaking.
A full obituary will be posted shortly on Berkeley’s news site.
Condolences to his family.
(http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/13_stampp.shtml)
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Rene,
Saw your post last night. It was the first I heard of Prof. Stampp’s death. He was an outstanding historian. Luckily for us, his works live on.
Completely agree!! Top notch!
Rene