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What does peculiar institution mean?

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Noun
  1. (derogatory) slavery.
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The White House Correspondents Associationn dinner is a peculiar institution.
Yet one incontrovertible fact set him decidedly apart from the rabid cotton state defenders of the peculiar institution.
With the cant of abolitionism well amplified, Missourians took up the cognomen of Southerners more widely, yet still largely as a defense of the peculiar institution.
Slave patrols, rather than being desultory or inadequate, turn out to be one of the chief ways that the southern states enforced their peculiar institution.
It indicates the way, too, for the abolishment of the peculiar institution of Utah.
But Iowa's real comparative advantage is its second peculiar institution, its redistricting law.

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