Antebellum is a
Latin word meaning "before war" (
ante means before and
bellum means war). In
United States history and
historiography, the term
antebellum is often used to refer to the period of increasing
sectionalism leading to the
American Civil War, instead of the term "pre-Civil War". In that context, the Antebellum Period is often considered to have begun with the
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, although sometimes it is defined as extending back as early as 1812. Sometimes it is called the
Old South. The time period after the civil war is called the postbellum or
reconstruction era.
Romanticism
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind...
- — From the opening of the film Gone with the Wind (1939)
The
Industrial Revolution 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 (1865 - 1877). While the South was largely ruined after the Civil War, this had as much or more to do with the failed domestic polices of the Confederacy, notably its impressment of food supplies and thousands of uprooted civilians, as it did with the
scorched earth policy of Sherman. Sherman's March was limited to
Georgia and
South Carolina, and scorched earth policies were not implemented in
Florida,
Tennessee, or the
Trans-Mississippi states.
More than any other single American artifact,
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, however, 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".
Architecture
The term
antebellum is also used to describe the architecture of the pre-war South. Many Southern plantation houses use this style, including:
The city of
New Orleans, Louisiana was the largest in the Confederacy at the start of the conflict.
The city was captured barely a year after the start of hostilities without combat in, or bombardment of the city itself. As a result, New Orleans retains the largest collection of surviving Antebellum architecture.
The Haunted Mansion at
Disneyland was designed as an embellished version of the antebellum mansion.
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