| 单词 | peculiar institution |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeculiar institution peculiar institution n. U.S. (now historical) the system of slavery in the Southern states of the U.S.; formerly also in plural in same sense. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > system or institution > specific peculiar institution1829 peculiar domestic institution1834 padronism1879 1829 Carolina Observer (Fayetteville, N. Carolina) 1 Jan. 1/4 South Carolina, from her climate, situation, and peculiar institutions, is and must forever continue to be, wholly dependent upon agriculture and commerce. 1861 H. A. Jacobs Incidents Life Slave Girl viii. 69 The northern man is not welcome south of Mason and Dixon's line, unless he suppresses every thought and feeling at variance with their ‘peculiar institution’. 1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 at Russell, Sir William Howard A visit to the South made him dislike the ‘peculiar institution’ of slavery so intensely that [etc.]. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 1391/2 Even the masses of southern whites who owned no slaves at all supported the ‘peculiar institution’ as a means of keeping blacks subordinate. < as lemmas |
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