Adjective : postbellum reforms. From Dictionary.com.
What's funny is the writer actually meant "postbellum" (after the war). From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
But Hampton also built an influential postbellum career. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Warrior Who Governed in Peace] Reference
In truth, the film is rather obviously set in the postbellum period. From Wordnik.com. [Song of the Speculation] Reference
I particularly like the sections on sewage and water supply postbellum 1800's. From Wordnik.com. [An Unnatural Metropolis] Reference
Optimists waited in vain for writers of the postbellum generations to fulfill their hopes. From Wordnik.com. [The Inner Civil War] Reference
Next, the examinations of race relations in the antebellum and postbellum South are not presented in any simple way here. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Many freed slaves in the postbellum South became sharecroppers -- a step up from slavery, but far from an independent living. From Wordnik.com. [We Shall Overcome?] Reference
The text provides a careful analysis of the case law to provide a snapshot of race relations in Alabama during the postbellum period. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
So ironically GWTW is most explicitely racist in its presentation of postbellum society; reconstruction is cast in explicitely racial terms. From Wordnik.com. ["These are not just regular costumes. These are the costumes that remind someone of the plantation in Gone with the Wind."] Reference
Anachronisms abound, from New Age lingo like “She gives off a bad feeling” to the dialect of the postbellum South: “her borning young.”. From Wordnik.com. [Mercy!] Reference
The Civil War ended the plantation economy and Sapelo became the home to a large African-American community during the Reconstruction and postbellum periods. From Wordnik.com. [Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, Georgia] Reference
The jail building was demolished in the 1870s, and further disturbances to the site have occurred since then. link I've seen just one postbellum photograph of Lumpkin's Jail. From Wordnik.com. [From On High] Reference
Whether the postbellum unity and morale for resistance can properly be called nationalism or not, it came closer to approximating that goal than what the Confederacy achieved. From Wordnik.com. [The Cult of the Lost Cause] Reference
The developed separately in three different regions of the postbellum South: the Mississippi Delta and eastern Texas at the turn of the century, and in the Piedmont ten years later. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Blues:Structure And Development In The Post-Civil War South] Reference
Several more short stories followed, in which Chestnutt drew on his knowledge of eastern North Carolina to illustrate both the hardships and the idiosyncrasies of the postbellum South. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Color Line] Reference
The role of the black press reached its heights in the postbellum era, as millions of the formerly enslaved black Americans hungered for a voice amidst the clamor and fuss of Reconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [2010 February | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
Silver Bluff was renewed in postbellum time, was, as we shall see, as much the benefactor and protector of Jesse Peter, as George Galphin had been of David George before, and during the earlier stages of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
And we will at last rediscover that democracy -- as was true in postbellum Germany and Japan -- must follow any victory over autocracy, as aftershocks in the Middle East will approach the magnitude that we witnessed in Europe in 1945 and 1989. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2002-08-01] Reference
István Deák's review of Telford Taylor's recent memoir of the Nuremberg tribunal presents substantial moral and legal arguments against the legitimacy of the postbellum Nazi trials, and thus against the validity of Nuremberg as legal precedent for contemporary war crimes trials, for example in the former Yugoslavia. From Wordnik.com. [Judgment at Nuremberg: An Exchange] Reference
This time, of Bill going home to visit to visit his wife in the early postbellum days. From Wordnik.com. [Arkansas Times] Reference
That is why the postbellum terrors of reconstruction were practically unknown in the State. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come] Reference
He became one of the most influential southern leaders of the Civil War and postbellum periods. From Wordnik.com. [ArchivesBlogs] Reference
Democrats 'defense of, and indifference to, slavery survived the postbellum era in the defense of, and indifference to, Jim Crow. From Wordnik.com. [AreYouLiberal.Com] Reference
As comes out more clearly in postbellum days, it was a miracle if there was work for men and women to do; everyone was far from quarrelling with the terms of engagement. 116. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South] Reference
So convinced were they of the righteousness of their mission, white evangelicals were shocked when slaves abandoned plantations during the Civil War and set up their own churches in the postbellum years. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The woman who had assumed command of Augusta Female Seminary in the dark days of the Civil War and guided it to postbellum prosperity was much loved and respected, and even in death proved a benefactor to those she knew. From Wordnik.com. [newsleader.com -] Reference
(and conservative Protestantism more generally) flourished in the antebellum and postbellum South, it absorbed existing beliefs about slavery and segregation's divine origins. From Wordnik.com. [The United States of Jamerica] Reference
At least since the 1954 Brown decision, and certainly since Eisenhower’s show of force at Little Rock, it had become clear that the continued existence of the American South as a postbellum plantation was impossible as well as undesirable. From Wordnik.com. [Feckless Youth] Reference
What it amounts to is postbellum depression. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: Postwar Blues] Reference
Meeting obtained our postbellum. From Wordnik.com. [We Heart Gossip: The hottest celebrity gossip news - hearted or hated by you!] Reference
Even the victors were worse off postbellum. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
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