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Example sentences for: antebellum

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The antebellum modesty, while in part a reflection of the conventional etiquette of the time, may also have served a political objective: to alleviate the concerns of those who--in the early days of the republic--feared it might be transformed into a monarchy, and the president into a king.
When Brady photographed the leaders of the antebellum years--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and the rest--he turned them into actors too.
The Communists considered ceding Kosovo to Albania but instead decided that it should revert to its antebellum status quo.
After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory.
In the antebellum era, New England-based Conscience Whigs denounced the North's pro-South Cotton Whigs as corrupt.