But in the process, Walker also manages to broach a commentary about the implicit character of life under slavery, the subconscious of the peculiar institution and perhaps the way in which slavery ...

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An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape bondage. Some fugitives took to the sea.

Arguably the finest body of literature produced by American historians since 1960 has been the work reappraising the South's "peculiar institution." But before new views could take hold ...

A young Roslyn would ask questions about that peculiar institution but didn’t always understand the answers. “'Why couldn’t my grandparents vote?’” she recalled wanting to know.

In truth, the peculiar Institution of racial slavery was foundational to America’s rise and depended entirely on classifying Black people as commodities that were both highly valued and sought ...

You point out in the book that, at the time, three-quarters of the world was in bondage, and, as Seymour Drescher said, "freedom, not slavery, was the peculiar institution." It seems extraordinary ...

For while the peculiar institution continued to thrive in the southern states, the 1800 census shows that by the dawn of the 19th century, just 544 Lancaster Countians owned slaves.

Insects do much of what people do: they meet, mate, fight, and part with what resembles love or animosity. Beetles care for their young and wasps engage in horrific battles. Yet they do these things ...