antebellum
pronunciation
How to pronounce antebellum in British English:
UK [ˌæntiˈbeləm]
How to pronounce antebellum in American English:
US [ˌæntiˈbɛləm]
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- Adjective:
- belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War
Word Origin
- antebellum (adj.)
- also ante-bellum, from Latin phrase ante bellum, literally "before the war;" see ante- + bellicose. In U.S., usually in reference to the American Civil War (1861-65); first attested in a June 14, 1862, entry in Mary Chesnut's diary.
Example
- 1. Enslaved women and the art of resistance in antebellum america .
- 2. In antebellum days , free persons of colour were musicians , poets , journalists , business entrepreneurs , and landlords .
- 3. Anglophilia : deference , devotion , and antebellum america .
- 4. The unique sectional nature of antebellum slavery led to an increasingly bitter political struggle between north and south that culminated in civil war .
- 5. Throughout the antebellum period , slaves constituted about one-third of the southern population .