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Peculiar institution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"(Our) peculiar institution" was a euphemism for slavery and the economic ramifications of it in the American South. The meaning of "peculiar" in this expression is "one's own", that is, referring to...
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American Slavery ... The first ship bearing slaves for America landed in 1619, beginning over two centuries of human bondage on the American continent, bondage which would eventually be called our "peculiar institution." This institution always received theological support from various religious leaders, both in the pulpit...
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a) Demanded immediate emancipation without compensation b) Opposed the Constitution as a "covenant with death and an agreement with hell." c) Garrison published a powerful newspaper entitled The Liberator which attacked slavery and the government's collusion with the institution...
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When it first became apparent that Al Gore had won the popular vote but lost the election, some politicians and pundits predicted that the end had finally come for America's most peculiar political institution: Americans, ... The issue was not small states versus big states but slavery and racial discrimination.
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Kenneth M. Stampp, a UC Berkeley historian whose repudiation of the benign, paternalistic interpretations of slavery that had prevailed for more than 100 years permanently altered his profession's views of what white Southerners had euphemistically called "our peculiar institution," died July 10 at an Oakland hospital.
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Instead, it remains obsessed with the racial, ideological, and sexual spoils system called "diversity". ... Notice the addition? The "peculiar institution", by the way, is another term for "slavery".
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