<P> 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 . </P>
<P> 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 . </P>
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the peculiar institution in southern vernacular was a reference to
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slavery