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How To Use antebellum In A Sentence

• In 1853, Bayard Taylor, the most celebrated travel writer in antebellum America (and the subject of chapter 8), was able to visit several of China’s largest coastal cities because, after the Opium War, the Treaty of Nanjing (1842) made such excursions possible by opening up additional ports to foreign intercourse. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
• How democratic was the Democratic Party in the South during the antebellum and Civil War periods?
• But that memory has suppressed the suffering caused by the Civil War and promoted the mythological life of antebellum planation owners. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
• As an African American diarist in antebellum and post-bellum America, she was a privileged individual by birth and endowment.
• My argument here draws on Timothy R. Mahoney's observations on the function of camaraderie among business rivals in antebellum Midwestern cities. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83
• During the last decades of the antebellum period, indeed, nearly half of Virginia's white migrants moved north.
• The choice of whipping underscored the attempt to continue an antebellum form of punishment.
• The following passage underscores my point that it is impossible, or at least irresponsible, to comprehend female literary consumption in antebellum America without including British reprints in the discussion. Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the UnMasking of Anglo-American Sentiment
• For most workers, however, the antebellum period was one of rising wages and higher standards of material well-being.
• In colonial and antebellum America, slaves could buy their freedom, but only with the acquiescence of their masters.