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postbellum

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post·bel·lum  (pst-blm)
adj.
Belonging to the period after a war, especially the U.S. Civil War: postbellum houses; postbellum governments.

[Latin post, after + bellum, war.]


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The idea that boardinghouses helped to resolve the contradictions in the rhetoric of the home during this period is a compelling one, as is Gamber's assertion that boardinghouses had more detractors in the postbellum period than they did earlier because the ideal of the single family home had grown stronger.
As a result, most mainline churches receded further on the race question, either supporting actively or greeting with indifference the decades of racial injustice under postbellum segregationist order.
Sadly, this mythology captured the religious imagination of many evangelicals in postbellum America.
 
 
 
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