Peculiar+Institution

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PECULIAR INSTITUTION**__-**

 * Peculiar institution was started during the revolutionary war. Peculiar institution was when african americans were taken as slaves and forced to endure heavy labor without any pay and hardly food. These people were considered below people and were always owned by a white man. They were forced to work all day in the fields on huge plantations. This was the start of slavery which would eventually lead to the beginning of the Civil war[[image:78359-004-3AF75A0B.jpg]] Some of the men who owned these plantations did not always treat their slaves badly, but this was rare to find a senntimental man like this. Almost all of the plantation owners treated their slaves badly for instance they would constantly whip, tar and feather, and abuse them. The slaves were not all men and women children who were born into slavery had to work. These children did not get any sympathy from the owner he treated them exactly the same.**

BEFORE SLAVERY-

 * The Declaration of Independance states that, "All men are to be created equal". Unfortunatlly this rule did not count for these poor people that had to spend their lives this way. All of these people did not start out as slaves they started in usually somewhere is south Africa. They were transported over to the Americas long ago before the Revolutionary War started. The transprtation of slaves being brought to america was called "The Middle Passage". The young and old African people brought here had a nice healthy, rich life. They had made a nice life for themselves. The men hunted to gather food the women cooked and tood care of the children.**[[image:http://laurelrose.com/MORN/pueb1.jpg width="276" height="276" caption="This is what one of the huts might look like"]] **They liv****ed in very nice homeade houses made from adobe a strong cement like material.**

HOW PECULIAR INSTITUTION WAS**
If you were captured and taken into peculiar institution this would be the worst life for anyone. You got no pay, little food, not treated as an equal, and you were constantly working and being beaten. This torment and humility went on through the early 1600's to the mid 1800's. All of the slave owners were white and most of the plantations were in the south. The reason for this was because the north got extremely cold sometimes and you could not grow crops and the south did not get very cold. The Civil War was the war to get rid of Peculiar Institution and liberate all African Americans everywhere. The north and the south fought the north wanted to get rid of this horrible injustice. People all across the world called America "A Nation Divided". The north eventually won and this was mostly the end of Peculiar Institution. Thomas Jefferson the man who wrote the Declaration of Independance was one of the slaves worst enemies. He wrote himself that all men are to be created equal under god and he did not go by his word. He himself was a slave owner and had a large plantation in Virginia and did not treat them well he was no different than any other slave owner. These slaves were hoping that he would set them free but instead he did the opposite.

=What happened Now-= Peculiar Institution was over and so was slavery but not all torment and hatred from the African Americans had not gone. Racisim continued from then on to the late 1900's. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a huge help to stop racisim so was Abe Lincoln who announced the Ammancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves. All of these people will go down in history as the best men and women in American history. There is not as much rasicm and hatred to blacks today, but there are still people out there like the Klu Klucks Klan or the KKK. Who are some of the most hated people in the United States of America.