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What does antebellum mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of the time period prior to a war.
  2. In the United States of America, of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.
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As a cultural form, the cakewalk originated on the antebellum plantation as a key vehicle of black resistance against enslavement.
By the antebellum period, the American icons of the self-made man and the confidence man were locked in fatal embrace.
It thus comments on both antebellum literature and twentieth-century literary criticism.
History buffs will want to visit the restored antebellum plantation house located to the north-east of Bradenton.
Tables were piled with textbooks for homeschoolers, tomes denouncing evolution, booklets waxing nostalgic for the antebellum South.
South Carolina is a state of palm trees, antebellum homes and genuine Southern charm.

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