ante-bellum
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Their fire-eating ante-bellum debates helped start the hostilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is an evening of dramatic readings thoughtfully culled from the statements of Presidents, the reminiscences of ex-slaves and ante-bellum Southern matrons, the rantings of bigots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Life at Glen Lily, the general's 1,000-acre estate near Munfordville, Ky., went on in much the same spacious ante-bellum way.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is partly because Shaw's ante-bellum England is not in itself a theme, but only a framework for one.
From Time Magazine Archive
William Johnson's Natchez; the ante-bellum diary of a free Negro.
From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Porter, Dorothy B.
