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"
Antebellum" is an expression derived from
Latin that means "before war" ("before," and, "war").
In
United States history and
historiography, "antebellum" is commonly used, in lieu of "pre-Civil War," in reference to the period of increasing
sectionalism that led up to the
American Civil War. In that sense, the Antebellum Period is often considered to have begun with the
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, though it's sometimes stipulated to extend back as early as 1812. The period
after the Civil War is called the "
Postbellum," or
Reconstruction, era.
» :::— From the opening of the film
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The
Industrial is mythically substituted for by the widespread destruction of
Sherman's
March to the Sea from
Atlanta to the
Atlantic Ocean and by the military occupation of the defeated
Confederacy by
Union forces during the period termed
Reconstruction implemented in
Florida,
Tennessee, or the
Trans-Mississippi states.
More than any other single American author,
Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel,
Gone with the Wind and the subsequent 1939 film, have permanently altered historical perspective and fixed a slanted popularized image of pre-Civil War American history and are good examples of the romanticized view. In the romanticized view, the Antebellum Period is often looked back on with sentimental nostalgia by some whites in the U.S. South, as an idealized pre-industrial highly-structured genteel and stable agrarian society, in contrast to the anxiety and struggle of modern life. The issue of slavery is largely ignored in Gone with the Wind — although Mitchell does make a point of examining the relationship between the slaves and their masters on the southern plantations.
D. W. Griffith's 1915 film,
The Birth of a Nation, romanticized the pre-war South in a very similar way.
Because of
slavery, and the many
human rights abuses it spawned, many
African Americans find the romanticizing of this era to be offensive, and often see a coded reference of approval of the racism of the period in the term "Old South", though the defenders of this line of thought claim that the only celebration is that of the chivalry and honor of the Old South and that racism has nothing to do with their admiration.
Architecture
The term
antebellum is also used to describe the architecture of the pre-war South. Many Southern plantation houses use this style, including:
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