Plantation era is loosely regarded as the Antebellum era.
The Plantation era , also loosely referred to as the Antebellum era , was a period in the history of the Southern United States , from the late 18th century until the start of the American Civil War in 1861 -LRB- which ended slavery in the United States and destroyed much of the economic landscape of the South -RRB- , marked by the economic growth of the South , based on slave-driven plantation farming .	history of the Southern United States	history of the Southern United States	American Civil War	American Civil War	slavery in the United States	slavery in the United States	plantation farming	Plantations in the American South
