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
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
Their fire-eating ante-bellum debates helped start the hostilities.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is partly because Shaw's ante-bellum England is not in itself a theme, but only a framework for one.
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 David Grayson
