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How To Use antebellum In A Sentence

• As we shall see, black river workers and their riverside friends were at the root of innumerable problems slaveholders faced in the thriving commercial economy of the antebellum West.
• It's interesting to me, Valerie, that you would choose to write about the antebellum era.
• In brief prologues he presents overviews of antebellum gardens and their designs, characteristics, and functions in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
• We stroll past pink and yellow antebellum houses with fluted pillars and lacey iron gates, beneath a canopy of rambling trees, their green leafy arms stretched out across wide boulevards. The Memory Palace
• A common antebellum designation for the country, these United States survived in the 20th century in folksy idiomatic usage.
• Some Union commanders even continued to uphold the antebellum policy of protecting resident slaveholders from slave revolts.
• Individual schoolmistresses and teachers in the academies and seminaries that proliferated in Alexandria during the antebellum period offered instruction in a wide range of useful and ornamental subjects.
• It may be that this story is unique to Louisiana in the late antebellum period, but this would hardly lessen the volume's significance.
• The antebellum South was a society founded on the traditional family of husband, wife, and children.
• I love the look of a classic antebellum steamboat, and the artist here actually got it right and gave me a sidewheeler, not a sternwheeler. Some Pretty Pictures