LibGuides: 8th Grade Slavery Unit: Alabama

General

Alabama

Alabama State Flag

Alabama State Quarter

Citation: Fournier, Eric J., and Martin T. Olliff. "Alabama." World Book Advanced, World Book, 2023,
www.worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar010280. Accessed 2 May 2023.

Alabama

Slavery - Alabama
Slavery in America: The Montgomery Slave Trade
Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation
Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama
Jim Lawson (Uncle Jim), Windsor Plantation, Alabama, 1915
Uncle Tom Brown, Windsor Plantation, Alabama, 1915
The Untold History of Post-Civil War 'Neoslavery'
Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 1, Alabama, Aarons-Young
Slave auction in Montgomery, Alabama.
Chart: Slave population in 1860
The Life of the Negro Slave in Alabama
1971 Masters Thesis Paper by Daniel B. Austin
Selections from Alabama's Laws Governing Slaves
Montgomery County, Alabama Slave Holder Affidavits: September 1, 1860
The Slaves of Thomas and Nancy Barnett of Lauderdale County, Alabama
A permanent wound: How the slave tax warped Alabama finances
THE CHANGING NATURE OF SLAVERY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, 1828-1865
The Black Belt
The Slave Market in Mobile, Alabama
Tour guide Eric Finley explains the history of the slave market in Mobile, Alabama.

Fast Facts - Alabama

Alabama, one of the Southern States of the United States, is known as the Heart of Dixie. Alabama occupies a central place in the history of the South. The Constitution of the Confederacy was drawn up in Montgomery, the state capital, in 1861. The Alabama Capitol served as the first Confederate Capitol. There, Jefferson Davis took office as president of the Confederacy.