ante-bellum
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Sumner, Miss, belongs to the Deeper South�the one without its own memories of ante-bellum order or graciousness.
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Liberia's annual budget came to $750,000, and government departments were quartered in shabby, corrugated-metal reproductions of Southern U.S. ante-bellum mansions.
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A rundown ante-bellum mansion serves as the administration building.
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Readings by Negro actors of excerpts from the works of ante-bellum Negro writers.
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Slavery in the South; first-hand accounts of the ante-bellum American Southland from northern & southern whites, Negroes, & foreign observers.
From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Porter, Dorothy B.