ante-bellum
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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.
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Their fire-eating ante-bellum debates helped start the hostilities.
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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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These years have been reserved for specific discussion because of the effort which has been made by two writers to invest them with a character of industrialism superior to that of the ante-bellum period generally.
From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Mitchell, Broadus
