ante-bellum
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Readings by Negro actors of excerpts from the works of ante-bellum Negro writers.
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
Both Burnet and Rhett are maternal family names famous in ante-bellum days.
From Time Magazine Archive
A rundown ante-bellum mansion serves as the administration building.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ante-bellum Southern leaders saw that they must either extend their institution or else face its ultimate extinction.
From Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy by Grayson, David
