Meaning of peculiar institution | Babel Free

Definitions

slavery

derogatory, euphemistic, uncountable

Examples

“He became a great drunkard and a great gambler (vices intimately connected with the "peculiar institution,") and was obliged to give up his business.”

“He documents the extensiveness of the peculiar institution's presence throughout the region and establishes a much more realistic context for the emergences of abolitionist sentiments and the various forms it took.”

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