New York: Vintage Books, ( c. 1956). A book which iGood only (prev owner's name, underlining to many pages in the beginning of the book but a sturdy copy.)s now a classic on this topic, one which cut through the myths of slavery as a kindly paternalistic system and views it as a practical system of controlling and exploiting labor, one in which the slaves both felt the indignity of the bondage and which they resisted. Notes, index. ix, 436, xiii pp.