Antebellum
Antebellum adjective - Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War.
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Old and antebellum are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Old" instead an adjective "Antebellum".
Old
Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
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Stephen is a very old black man, who with his bald pate, and tufts of white curly hair on the sides, looks like a character out of Dickens - if Dickens wrote about House Niggers in the Antebellum South.
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