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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It romanticizes a culture that was terrorizing and abusing all but the wealthiest and whitest people in the south. It's something that should be looked back on reverently, if not with shame, not romanticized as the good Ole days. [/quote]

Not up to you to decide. [/quote]

What? Lol. The first part of my post is fact, and is the answer to why many view the antebellum period as one we should not celebrate.

You can decide for yourself if you want to romanticize it, but you can't ignore the facts of what happened. It wasn't all pretty dresses and mint juleps. [/quote]

It isn't the period, it is the plantation culture that is shunned. "Little Women" is antebellum. Emerson and Thoreau are antebellum. Have a Trancendentalism-themed party. [/quote]

I think this is important.  Precision of language is critical and cancelling the entire period without recognizing what else was going on is dangerous.   [/quote]

Point taken, and I don't disagree. [/quote]

We can be deliberately literal and pretend that when people refer to "Antebellum" they mean the years before 1861, and that includes white sharecroppers and abolitionist philosophers and poets.  But it doesn't, and if you just google "antebellum party" you can see what people really mean.[/quote]

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