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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.
In the antebellum era, New England-based Conscience Whigs denounced the North's pro-South Cotton Whigs as corrupt.
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.
When Gone With the Wind was in production, other studios rushed to find other antebellum epics.
Actually, expansion aroused Northern fears mainly because it promised to create more states hospitable to slavery, but in Buchanan's telling, the central issue of antebellum America garners barely a mention.