ante-bellum
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Readings by Negro actors of excerpts from the works of ante-bellum Negro writers.
From Time Magazine Archive
A rundown ante-bellum mansion serves as the administration building.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their fire-eating ante-bellum debates helped start the hostilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few weeks ago in Dallas, a white-haired, grandmotherly woman paraded around the hall in an ante-bellum dress of red, white and blue.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only ante-bellum case that I can recall was due to an accidental injury of the head.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
