The answer is slave. The Antebellum Era, likewise roughly
denoted to as the Plantation era, was an era in
the past of the Southern United States, from the late 18th period up until the beginning
of the American Civil War in 1861, manifested by the economic development of
the South grounded on slave-driven plantation agribusiness. The revivalism that
spread thru the country throughout the antebellum era also contributed increase
to several social reform movements like abolitionism (sought to end
slavery).
