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The plantation’s managers have built slavery exhibits and nixed the antebellum uniforms. Andrea Gallo, NOLA.com, "A special Labor Day offer for you $6.99 a month for 6 months," 4 Sep. 2020

Faulkner’s white characters’ engagement with the world is dominated by a past shrouded in a miasma of bad faith — by nostalgia for a golden antebellum age and the Lost Cause. Michael Gorra, Star Tribune, "Review: 'The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War,' by Michael Gorra," 28 Aug. 2020

White, whose father and namesake was an antebellum Louisiana governor, grew up the scion of a wealthy slaveholding family of Thibodaux sugar planters. Bryn Stole | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, "As Confederate monuments come down, statues of Louisiana's E.D. White may be on the move," 22 Aug. 2020

He had been placed into a trust, a common practice in the antebellum South. Ann Banks, Smithsonian Magazine, "Two Women, Their Lives Connected by American Slavery, Tackle Their Shared History," 19 Aug. 2020

Faulkner was unusual for a Southern writer of his time in his equivocal attitude toward the antebellum past. Evan Kindley, The New Republic, "William Faulkner’s Southern Guilt," 18 Aug. 2020

From 1969 through 2019, the Birmingham Belles had hosted annual events at Arlington highlighting the debutante ball-style presentation of more than 100 white women dressed in antebellum dresses. al, "Birmingham’s antebellum mansion faces budget cuts, questions about future," 18 Aug. 2020

For some, plantations evoke the antebellum Southern lifestyle with cotillions, magnolias trees, and Gone With the Wind. Maria Hunt, House Beautiful, "These Common Design Terms Have Troubled Meanings," 11 Aug. 2020

The other is a fascinatingly dishonest, selective statement of fact, rather like describing how beautiful the countryside was in the antebellum American South. Laurie Penny, Longreads, "Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness," 10 Aug. 2020

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