Antebellum

What is Antebellum?


1.

Before the War, ante is Latin for before, bellum is Latin for war. Often used to describe the period in the United States directly prior to the Civil War.

The antebellum South was based on a largely agricultural economy.

See antibellum, war, before, prior, south


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