ante-bellum
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Both Burnet and Rhett are maternal family names famous in ante-bellum days.
From Time Magazine Archive
Louisiana's Greek Revival Belle Grove, one of the most beautiful of ante-bellum plantation mansions, was burned to the ground by vandals as it stood abandoned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Readings by Negro actors of excerpts from the works of ante-bellum Negro writers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sumner, Miss, belongs to the Deeper South�the one without its own memories of ante-bellum order or graciousness.
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.
