antebellum

" it's one of the last reigning symbols of the antebellum firehouse.

It happened in the antebellum South, which is not exactly known for being a stronghold of feminism.

Think of how many Africans were better off as slaves in the antebellum South than living as free men and women back home.

Interesting parallel I guess, as paper checks seem just about as antebellum to me now.

You don't think the cotton gin and improved looms contributed to the numbers of people enslaved in the antebellum southern USA?

Americans didn't have an aristocracyWasn't there one in the South during the antebellum era?

Which is why, incidentally, I was careful to specify slavery in the antebellum south, and not slavery in general.

Surely, if they had a time machine, there'd be quite a few antebellum Harvard freshman willing to tell us all how important it is to memorize Thucydides in the original Greek.

Are you seriously arguing that a debatable genetic difference was the principle reason antebellum blacks were picking cotton?I didn't make any such point.

Are you seriously arguing that a debatable genetic difference was the principle reason antebellum blacks were picking cotton?You can, and most people could discuss it, but it's an extremely weak point.

And the civil rights movement was deeply socially disruptive for the Jim Crow South, just as the abolition of slavery was deeply socially disruptive for the antebellum South even earlier.

I said "And the civil rights movement was deeply socially disruptive for the Jim Crow South, just as the abolition of slavery was deeply socially disruptive for the antebellum South even earlier.

In the antebellum years, patents were civil rights securing important property rights -- what natural-rights-influenced politicians and jurists called 'privileges.

Estate design in the colonial and antebellum Southeast, where malaria was a huge problem until the 20th century, was arguably designed to maximize breezes and drafts: be on hilltops, surrounded by mostly open lawns without much shade, with tall, open windows.

I would just like to remind you that the faction in the antebellum Republican Party who called for the abolition of slavery was called the radical wing, and was considered extremist by Lincoln himself as well as many other northerners who could not imagine the emancipation of the slaves.