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Postbellum vs. Antebellum — What's the Difference?

Postbellum vs. Antebellum — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Postbellum and Antebellum

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Postbellum

Belonging to the period after a war, especially the US Civil War
Postbellum houses.
Postbellum governments.

Antebellum

Occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the US Civil War
The conventions of the antebellum South

Postbellum

Of the period following a war.

Antebellum

Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Postbellum

(US) Of the period following the American Civil War, especially used in reference to the South.
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Antebellum

Of the time period prior to a war.
A renewed sense of national pride arose in Hitler's antebellum Germany.

Antebellum

(US) Of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.
Slavery was an accepted part of antebellum plantation life.

Antebellum

Belonging to a period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

Antebellum

Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War

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