ante-bellum
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Their fire-eating ante-bellum debates helped start the hostilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Liberia's annual budget came to $750,000, and government departments were quartered in shabby, corrugated-metal reproductions of Southern U.S. ante-bellum mansions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Readings by Negro actors of excerpts from the works of ante-bellum Negro writers.
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
Except in size and superficial appearance there was no change in the ante-bellum gin, gin-house and screw from 1820 to 1860.
From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Mitchell, Broadus
