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antebellum
(redirected from Antebellum Period)

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antebellum
Dating before or existing before the US Civil War (1861–1865).


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245) Whereas earlier discussions of enslaved women's health have focused on the more familiar issues of pregnancy, childbirth, and feigning illness, Schwartz casts a broad net, reminding us that reproductive health even in the antebellum period extended to cancers, menstrual irregularities, and infertility.
It is a particularly intact example of a Gothic Revival church from the antebellum period.
A selection of writings, quotes, maps, images, documents, and artifacts are highlighted, covering themes of the African diaspora, the slave trade and enslavement, the antebellum period, abolitionism, the Civil War and afterwards, the Jim Crow period, the New Negro, civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and black leadership.
 
 
 
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