antebellum

adjective

an·te·bel·lum ˌan-ti-ˈbe-ləm

: existing before a war

especially : existing before the American Civil War

antebellum houses

the antebellum South

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The route that runs straight through Darien, Georgia, and cuts across the marshes, rivers and creeks along coastal McIntosh County leads to a historic site: Butler Island, a once vast antebellum plantation. —

Melissa L. Cooper, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 This was seen as an abomination and a catastrophe, not only to the slaveholding South but to nearly all the leading institutional actors of the antebellum republic. —

Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024 The Mills’ lives spanned two major American historical periods, the antebellum South and the post-Civil War era. —

Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024 America's great antebellum dispute, that over chattel slavery, similarly concerned the nature of the human person. —

Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for antebellum