LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pre-war or prewar (Latin: antebellum) is the period before the most recent or significant war in a culture’s history, and may refer to: Prior to World War I. Between World War I and World War II.
Detailed explanation-2: -"Antebellum” means “before the war, ” but it wasn’t widely associated with the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) until after that conflict was over. The word comes from the Latin phrase “ante bellum” (literally, “before the war"), and its earliest known print appearance in English dates back to the 1840s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Etymology. From the Latin ante bellum (literally “before the war”).
Detailed explanation-4: -Antebellum means before a war and the term has been widely associated with the pre-Civil War period in the United States when slavery was practiced.