I'd just welcome an end to all the bitterness-and the peculiar institution at the same time.

The point here is to demonstrate that slavery was not just a peculiar institution but a diverse and historically complicated one as well.

About the peculiar institution we all have a right to mourn.

In New York, nobody could talk for half an hour without launching an argument over the south's peculiar institution.

This is one of its peculiar institutions; for it is a shire town.

But child care is a peculiar economic institution.

The American mode of treatment is starting to look less like a necessary evil and more like a peculiar institution.

The "peculiar institution" ensured that elites controlled most of the land, property, and capital in the South.

The speech was a scathing criticism of the South and the "peculiar institution."

Would the power of the federal government be used to interfere with the "peculiar domestic institution" of the Southern states?