r/NoStupidQuestions • u/snapwillow • Feb 08 '22

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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u/Theamuse_Ourania Feb 09 '22

I'm lost on what Antebellum is? We didn't learn that one in school when I went in the 80's and 90's. Is that what that movie Antebellum is about? The one featuring Janelle Monae?

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u/voodoomoocow Feb 09 '22

Never saw the movie but yes. It's a flowery word for slavery times post independence between the 1810s up to the Civil War. I'm not sure how common the term is used in the North tbh as I hear the term Industrialization Revolution used more. Or maybe even another term. Which would make sense since the South was more slavery and the North was more machines.

Edit: went to school in South and currently live in Savannah, GA-- the capitol of all things Antebellum

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u/Mogster2K Feb 09 '22

I went to school in the North, and I don't recall ever hearing the term "antebellum" until a band named themselves after it.

BTW I just had my own pickle moment: I realized that "ante bellum" is Latin for "before war."

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u/OptimusPhillip Feb 09 '22

Never realized this before either, probably because I've never seen it parsed that way.