the peculiar institution

the peculiar institution
   obsolete American
   slavery
   19th-century usage, when slavery was thought to be an integral part of the economy of the South. It also continued in some Unionist states for much of the Civil War:
    ... it was unthinkable that the American flag should impose the South's 'peculiar institution' on new lands won by Americans from every part of the country. (G. C. Ward, 1990 — dispossessing American Indians was all right, it seems)

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