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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in the antebellum South.antebellum = U.S. history: pre-Civil War period
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The back of the house had the look of an antebellum mansion.† (source)
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I stopped at the side gate to Henri Pichot's large white and gray antebellum house.† (source)
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The bridge table is set up in Hilly's antebellum-style parlor with its deafening grandfather clock and gold swag curtains.† (source)
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The gravel road itself wound its way between antebellum farms, and she knew that for some of the farmers, life hadn't changed since before their grandparents were born.† (source)
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She is gliding down the antebellum tree-lined lanes of White Columns, one microplantation after another, still coasting on the residual kinetic energy boost that originated in the fuel in Studley the Teenager's gas tank.† (source)
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Conversely, when I hear black "leaders" talking about "Jewish slave owners" I feel angry and disgusted, knowing that they're inflaming people with lies and twisted history, as if all seven of the Jewish slave owners in the antebellum South, or however few there were, are responsible for the problems of African-Americans now.† (source)antebellum = U.S. history: pre-Civil War period
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As long as the girls are uneducated, low-caste peasants like Meena, society will look the other way—just as many antebellum Americans turned away from the horrors of slavery because the people being lashed looked different from them.† (source)
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He knew also that before launching the field of landscape architecture, Olmsted had been a writer and editor who had journeyed throughout the antebellum South exploring the culture and practice of slavery.† (source)
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If you took a left, toward my house, you'd hit River, where all the restored antebellum houses lined the Santee.† (source)
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The antebellum period, one of my favorites.† (source)
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Farmer's older sister remembered riding in the Blue Bird Inn down the town's fancy street, all overhung with Spanish moss and flanked by houses with antebellum-looking porticoes, and the Warden at the bus's wheel saying, "We'll get a house like one of these."† (source)
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Then we pulled up to a perfectly preserved antebellum mansion, surrounded by trees that had been planted by slaves.† (source)
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One of the antebellum houses that survived was the home of William Faulkner, the legendary writer.† (source)
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It was a place of hushed, fragrant gardens, silent streets, and large antebellum houses.† (source)
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His snarling insult of the night before, and his general mistreatment of Sophie, had trespassed on my dreams all night in various allusive masks and guises, and now to awake to behold the same midcentury urban face intoning these hokey antebellum lyrics was simply more than I could tolerate.† (source)
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