ante-bellum
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A rundown ante-bellum mansion serves as the administration building.
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.
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Their fire-eating ante-bellum debates helped start the hostilities.
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Readings by Negro actors of excerpts from the works of ante-bellum Negro writers.
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The history of Kansas has been of peculiar interest to the world at large, by reason of the struggles of ante-bellum days.
From Legends of The Kaw The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley by Voe, Carrie de
