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America's "Peculiar Institution" has significantly influenced our society, our politics, and our culture up through the present day. Describe the social effects, the political process that attempted to both preserve and change the institution, and the ultimate results? Use specific examples.

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This posting analyses the effect of America's "Peculiar Institution" on its society, politics, and culture up to the present day. It describe the social effects, the political process that attempted to both preserve and change the institution, and the ultimate results using specific examples.

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The Peculiar Institution was that of Slavery. It impacted Black Americans for the most part but it also had a telling impact on the Southern Whites who promulgated their version of Apartheid. The oppression of the freed blacks through the "share cropper" system and separation of institutions, the lack of funding for those institutions, lack of voting rights via poll tax and other means, and to some degree quotas in later years, an effort to equalize opportunity had negative impacts too. When slavery was abolished in the USA (1863), African-Americans expected to have the same rights as Causacians. However, in the Southern ...

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