"peculiar institution" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "\"Peculiar\" here does not mean strange. It means \"peculiar\" (particular) to a certain area, in this case the Southern United States.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Slavery",
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          "ref": "1855, Peter Randolph, Illustrations of the 'Peculiar Institution':",
          "text": "He became a great drunkard and a great gambler (vices intimately connected with the \"peculiar institution,\") and was obliged to give up his business.",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race, Introduction, page 3:",
          "text": "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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        }
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        "slavery"
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        "(euphemistic or derogatory) slavery"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        },
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          "ref": "2001, John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race, Introduction, page 3:",
          "text": "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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