samuel orris
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- Joined
- Mar 6, 2010
- Location
- Elizabethtown, PA
I am currently reading Bruce Catton's The Coming Fury for the second time. In it he quotes several people referring to slavery as "peculiar." I have seen this term used in other instances as well. How did slavery earn the term peculiar? Peculiar to me means to be odd or different. Other than slavery put fellow human beings in captivity, what else was peculiar about it? Was it a term used only by Abolitionists? I don't mean to sound ignorant, just curious if there are any thoughts.