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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in the antebellum South.
antebellum = U.S. history: pre-Civil War period
- The back of the house had the look of an antebellum mansion.† (source)
- The bridge table is set up in Hilly's antebellum-style parlor with its deafening grandfather clock and gold swag curtains.† (source)
- I stopped at the side gate to Henri Pichot's large white and gray antebellum house.† (source)
- The gravel road itself wound its way between antebellum farms, and she knew that for some of the farmers, life hadn't changed since before their grandparents were born.† (source)
- Conversely, when I hear black "leaders" talking about "Jewish slave owners" I feel angry and disgusted, knowing that they're inflaming people with lies and twisted history, as if all seven of the Jewish slave owners in the antebellum South, or however few there were, are responsible for the problems of African-Americans now.† (source)
- He knew also that before launching the field of landscape architecture, Olmsted had been a writer and editor who had journeyed throughout the antebellum South exploring the culture and practice of slavery.† (source)
- She is gliding down the antebellum tree-lined lanes of White Columns, one microplantation after another, still coasting on the residual kinetic energy boost that originated in the fuel in Studley the Teenager's gas tank.† (source)
- Farmer's older sister remembered riding in the Blue Bird Inn down the town's fancy street, all overhung with Spanish moss and flanked by houses with antebellum-looking porticoes, and the Warden at the bus's wheel saying, "We'll get a house like one of these."† (source)
- As long as the girls are uneducated, low-caste peasants like Meena, society will look the other way--just as many antebellum Americans turned away from the horrors of slavery because the people being lashed looked different from them.† (source)
- If you took a left, toward my house, you'd hit River, where all the restored antebellum houses lined the Santee.† (source)
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- The antebellum period, one of my favorites.† (source)
- One of the antebellum houses that survived was the home of William Faulkner, the legendary writer.† (source)
- The antebellum propaganda war between North and South had created in southern minds an image of the hated Yankees as an amalgam of money-grubbing mudsill Black Republican abolitionist Goths and Vandals.† (source)
- Then we pulled up to a perfectly preserved antebellum mansion, surrounded by trees that had been planted by slaves.† (source)
- So Bubba and Kitty Offenhaus could only be found in their big new house, a rare combination of modern and classic, constructed largely of tinted glass between antebellum Greek columns.† (source)
- His snarling insult of the night before, and his general mistreatment of Sophie, had trespassed on my dreams all night in various allusive masks and guises, and now to awake to behold the same midcentury urban face intoning these hokey antebellum lyrics was simply more than I could tolerate.† (source)
- It was a place of hushed, fragrant gardens, silent streets, and large antebellum houses.† (source)
- And the beginning had happened in an antebellum house on The Point.† (source)
- Later, we strolled the grounds of the Oswald Plantation, a beautifully restored antebellum home that boasted some of the finest gardens in the state.† (source)
- Behind me was Henri Pichot's gray and white antebellum house, sitting on its foundation high above the ground.† (source)
- Holmes possessed Julia now as fully as if she were an antebellum slave, and he reveled in his possession.† (source)
- It actually looked beautiful, surrounded by antebellum buildings that were sea captains' homes 150 years ago.† (source)
- During the antebellum period many southerners had avoided using the words slaves and slavery, preferring instead servants and southern institutions.† (source)
- There was no antique period furniture or oil paintings of the Ravenwoods who came before Old Man Ravenwood, no antebellum heirlooms.† (source)
- The house had reverted to what I suspected was Macon's preferred state, dilapidated antebellum finery.† (source)
- An antebellum Douglas Democrat from Illinois wrote his wife in 1863 that his regiment had confiscated horses and liberated hundreds of slaves in middle Tennessee.† (source)
- As I walked through Selma, I had the eerie, uneasy feeling of walking through a graveyard as I passed rusted wrought-iron fences leaning into yards where weeds took over white-columned antebellum mansions, once the castles of cotton kings.† (source)
- Chance wayne was once barman here; Stuff moves with an indolent male grace that he may have unconsciously remembered admiring in Chance, Boss Finley's mistress, Miss Lucy , enters the cocktail lounge dressed in a ball gown elaborately ruffled and very bouffant like an antebellum Southern belle's.† (source)
- …packet of letters, the account books, and the photograph, asking if he, Jack Burden, thought that the enclosures were of any "financial interest" since he, the heir, had heard that libraries sometimes would pay a "fair sum for old papers and antebellum relics and keepsakes" Jack Burden replied that since Cass Mas-tern had been of no historical importance as an individual, it was doubtful that any library would pay more than a few dollars, if anything, for the material, and asked for…† (source)
- In Russia over a third of the bridegrooms and over half the brides are under twenty; the same was true of the antebellum Negroes.† (source)
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