ANTEBELLUM…? What is it..?

`A word about its Origin and Meaning

The History and Etymology of its origin is Latin (ante bellum)

Defined: existing before the American Civil War-the Antebellum South

In the south it connotes and smacked of the hierarchical order of class, gender, ethnic and cultural differences-also brings out memories and reflections of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Moreover, the evidence which brings the differences that resembled the making of a class society with the emergence and unfolding of such things as:

·        Limitations and restrictions

·        Denial and prevention of Civil, Equal, and Voters Rights

·        Oppression and suppression

·        Conflicts, challenges and obstacles

·        Deliberate and Intentional roadblocks

·        Racism and the manacles chains of prejudice, hatred, and Discrimination

My discourse and narrative of words and explanation is that; I was born in  The Southern State of Louisiana and lived on an Antebellum Plantation, where I, and my parents and nine other siblings worked in the cotton fields as Sharecroppers...with little or no wages received for the long hot summer days and months working in the cotton fields under abject conditions. The expression often used or expressed during that by-gone era was, “separated but equal’, because of the segregated laws of Jim Crow

Therefore, I shall begin with these words: During the 1950’s and 1960’s-The Laws of Jim Crow was very pervasive across the land. Due to the mandates that the laws upheld and put forth. The phrase and expression that was often proclaimed by the ‘Powers That be, of the Ruling Class’-Thus the Antebellum Plantation owners.  Nothing that was seen exhibited anything remotely close to activities that could be considered “separate but equal”

No matter, which or whatever way, you beheld the on-goings of the movements and the activities, during that by-gone era, there was no evidence of material witnessing portrayed- seen as anything that even resembled a “separate but equal” situational manifestation.

As a matter of fact, the evidence exhibited and portrayed, turn out to be a direct contradiction, to the, profess word, that was supposed to be the utterance and proclamation of ‘the real truth’. In the end, the expression “separate but equal” was nothing more than a fallacy and the furthest thing from ‘the real truth’

As of today, I can attest to the fact, that through the arduous situations of the long-suffering of the Jim Crow Laws, the experiential encounters of the Antebellum Plantation, the deliberate and intentional roadblocks, the diatribe of racism, prejudices, hatred, and discrimination, I am a ‘survivor’, I was resolute to be relentless and tenacious to reach and achieve the level of an ‘overcomer’.

I am confidant to share, that while in despair; through meditation and prayer, I was able to connect to something on the inside, a self-discovery that led me to experience and grasp, growth, and fasten to a feeling-of-freedom.

I am of the realization that every painful event you may encounter in life.

Even though it may seem woefully too painful to bear or even to endure.

However, I hasten to add, Every painful event in and of itself, contains a seed of “Growth, development  and Liberation” that shall allow you to go through the Long-Suffering to Reach the Glory!

In the final analysis, the “test’ take you through the ‘mess’ Gives rise to the Testimony and Message you can share, and Ultimately gets you through the Long-Suffering, so that you can get to the Glory! To Celebrate

GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, LIBERATION & FREEDOM….!

Steve Braxton, life coach, business adviser, featured @ https://blog.feedspot.com/money_making_blogs sbrax57@gmail.com