As an African American diarist in antebellum and post-bellum America, she was a privileged individual by birth and endowment. |
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Until more recently, historical accounts of nonslaveholding whites of the antebellum Southeast have focused heavily on yeomen and sharecroppers. |
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First, there were the networks surrounding towns and villages in colonial America and the antebellum South. |
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It thus comments on both antebellum literature and twentieth-century literary criticism. |
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We had heirloom roses growing in our backyard that locals said had been planted during the antebellum days. |
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The antebellum Southeast was without electricity, recorded music, television, movies, or radio. |
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The slave narrative is the best single source we have for the lived experience of bondage in the antebellum period. |
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It's interesting to me, Valerie, that you would choose to write about the antebellum slavery era. |
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It may be that this story is unique to Louisiana in the late antebellum period, but this would hardly lessen the volume's significance. |
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In colonial and antebellum America, slaves could buy their freedom, but only with the acquiescence of their masters. |
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During the last decades of the antebellum period, indeed, nearly half of Virginia's white migrants moved north. |
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How democratic was the Democratic Party in the South during the antebellum and Civil War periods? |
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Houses from the nineteenth century are similar to antebellum architecture of the American South, with verandas and classical columns. |
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The antebellum South was a society founded on the traditional family of husband, wife, and children. |
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His research explores the question of economic development within the slave economies of the antebellum American South. |
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The residents who profited most from Virginia's antebellum society, however, fought the hardest to maintain it. |
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Using historical photographs, they restored the rotunda and legislative chamber to their original antebellum style. |
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By the antebellum decades, westward migration had become a symbol of manly courage and adventure. |
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The author traces the roots of New Orleans' last and smallest zone of prostitution to antebellum bordellos and post-Civil War concert saloons. |
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A common antebellum designation for the country, these United States survived in the 20th century in folksy idiomatic usage. |
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Some represent a true horror vacui, with heavy antebellum ornamentation of blade, hilt and scabbard. |
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Tables were piled with textbooks for homeschoolers, tomes denouncing evolution, booklets waxing nostalgic for the antebellum South. |
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As a cultural form, the cakewalk originated on the antebellum plantation as a key vehicle of black resistance against enslavement. |
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By the antebellum period, the American icons of the self-made man and the confidence man were locked in fatal embrace. |
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Rigorous and lengthy clinical training replaced the short courses, European Wanderjahre, and apprenticeships of antebellum America. |
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The choice of whipping underscored the attempt to continue an antebellum form of punishment and to reinvent techniques to control the black body. |
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South Carolina is a state of palm trees, antebellum homes and genuine Southern charm. |
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The town's older buildings have gradually disappeared, but some physical reminders of the antebellum era remain. |
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History buffs will want to visit the restored antebellum plantation house located to the north-east of Bradenton. |
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The authors assert that the tariff was a crucial, if not the main, economic source of divisiveness during the antebellum era. |
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During the antebellum era on the De Saussure plantation in South Carolina, daily domestic tasks were to be completed in the hours between sunrise and sunset prayers. |
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In the antebellum era, cotton was not only the centerpiece of the romantic plantation but also a part of the world economy, as Confederates discovered with their failed policy of cotton diplomacy. |
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I know Tom Woods is an intriguing writer, and I too love my liberty, but this is no longer the antebellum era. |
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In many respects it bears almost no relation to the type of state-sanctioned endemic slavery that existed in Ancient Rome and the antebellum American South. |
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Men from the mountains and the coast, rich and poor, slaveholders and nonslaveholders, urbanites and rural residents all pledged their lives to defend the antebellum South. |
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The fervour of antebellum abolitionists, he argues, was a response to the fanaticism of proslavery Southerners. |
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Like fugitive slaves of the antebellum south, colored citizens huddled in the squad room and awaited their turn to be taken home under escort. |
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This episode illustrates, however, a different gendered history from that to which antebellum historians have typically devoted their attention. |
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Following Hamilton's death, the more abiding protectionist influence in the antebellum period came from Henry Clay and his American System. |
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The relative price of slaves and indentured servants in the antebellum period did decrease. |
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The planter aristocracy, the elite of antebellum Mississippi, kept the tax structure low for their own benefit, making only private improvements. |
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Scholars have debated the exact relationship between wage labor, slavery, and capitalism at length, especially for the antebellum United States. |
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The capital was named after the US president James Monroe, and you can still see something of the antebellum south in Monrovia's older architecture. |
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A renewed sense of national pride arose in Hitler's antebellum Germany. |
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Slavery, which by then meant almost exclusively African Americans, was the most important political issue in the antebellum United States, leading to one crisis after another. |
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The racist-driven killings took place in the South Carolina city that served as the ideological center of the southern slaveocracy of the antebellum and Civil War eras. |
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It is difficult to imagine that after decades of analysis and voluminous publications on the subject there are still major gaps in our understanding of the antebellum South. |
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