the peculiar institution in southern vernacular was a reference to separate but equal.
the peculiar institution in southern vernacular was a reference to?
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the peculiar institution: slavery in the ante-bellum south is a non-fiction book about slavery published in 1956, by academic kenneth m. stampp of the university of california, berkeley and other universities. the book describes and analyzes multiple facets of slavery in the american south from the 17th through the mid-19th century, including demographics, lives of slaves and slaveholders, the southern economy and labor systems, the northern and abolitionist response, slave trading, and political issues of the time.
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ultimately, however, the longest legacy of the system may be as symbol for the white south's injustice and inhumanity. in 1912, dr. e. stagg of the national commission on prison labor described the status of the southern convict as "the last surviving vestige of the slave system." a northern writer in the 1920s referred to the southern chain gang as the south's new "peculiar institution".
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