Word: antebellum
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...Arming America and Academic Fraud,” takes up the case of Michael Bellesiles, an Emory University professor who stepped down from his post after colleagues raised serious doubts about the validity of the research behind his award-winning 2000 book on gun ownership in antebellum America...
...year of Huckleberry Finn’s publication, Rawles’ book relates the life of Jim’s remarkably resilient wife, Sadie Watson, a slave who works as a healer and a cook, among other things, as she passes between owners in the antebellum South. It is framed, plausibly, if not very originally, as a story Sadie tells to her granddaughter Marianne Libre, while, in the grand tradition of Penelope, Scheherazade and, more recently, Winona Ryder’s Finn Dodd, they make a kind of memory quilt...
Alexander began the reading, reciting poetry representative of her entire oeuvre, including “The Venus Hottentot, 1825,” as well as poems based on dreams from her Antebellum Dream Book...
...Antebellum America was a world of constant low-intensity warfare between abolitionists and slavers in hot pursuit of their "property." The rising tide of escapees led to cross-border raids by Southern slaveholders who were emboldened by federal laws that gave them the right to chase runaways into free states. Hired slave hunters prowled the riverbanks, hoping to catch blacks and drag them south for cash. When no runaways were available, free-black citizens--there were 200,000 in the Northern states by 1860--could be clubbed and hustled across the river into captivity. Pro-slavery Northerners destroyed printing presses...
...around the French Quarter, some just steps away from the teeming restaurants and blaring clubs. Within their glowing interiors, the shops offer silverware, jewelry, furniture, chandeliers and other accessories to suit virtually every taste and budget. As you might expect, there are heirlooms from the region's antebellum plantations, but most stores feature antiques from England and France, with a smattering from Holland, Italy and Germany. The treasures range from a $35 piece of silver flatware to a $50,000 rare armoire to a $265,000 Baccarat crystal chandelier...