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Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

4 reviews
Sylviane A Diouf

Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

Wonderfully researched personal stories
Dreams of Africa in Alabama is a beautifully written and meticulous book. It's evident that Ms. Diouf spent a considerable amount of time and detail with her research. The author describes the Alabama slave trade and the events that lead to the maiden voyage of the modified schooner, Clotilda. She devotes two chapters to the lives of the "shipmates" - one prior to their capture and the other ...

Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama , 1800-1860

1 review
J. Mills, III Thornton

Louisiana State University Press, 1981

The politics of secession in antebellum Alabama
For those wishing to understand how the choice to secede came about in a state where elitist planters did not dominate the political process (as in South Carolina) this is an excellent book. Thornton clearly shows that secession was a product of populist Jacksonian democracy in Alabama, providing an alternative to the view that only slaveholders supported disunion. Alabama's politics were ...

Gabr'L Blow Sof': Sumter County, Alabama, Slave Narratives

Livingston Press (AL), 1997

Together for the first time, these slave narratives from Sumter County, Alabama, were transcribed by Ruby Pickens under the auspices of the WPA. The narratives offer rich insight into the periods of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, as well as the early Great Depression years. In turn shocking and humorous the narratives are sometimes presented as stories, litanies of complaints.

Booker T. Washington: From Slave to Teacher (Alabama Roots Biography Series)

Seacoast Publishing, Inc., 2004

He was a slave. He was poor. He was ignorant. A lot of people wanted to make sure he stayed that way. But Booker T. Washington overcame it all with determination and hard work to lift up the lives of thousands of others through education. The result of his work lives on today.

Alabama Slave Narratives

Applewood Books(MA), 2006

The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one-third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ...

Caesar Blackwell (1769-1845): the work and times of central Alabama's nineteenth-century ...
Gary Burton

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from Baptist History and Heritage, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 3113 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Caesar Blackwell (1769-1845): the work and ...

The Marengo Jake Stories: The Tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton (Library of Alabama Classics)
Jake Mitchell

University Alabama Press, 2007

The laws of ignorance designed to keep slaves (Blacks) illiterate and powerless.: An article from: Education
Ralph Erickson

Project Innovation (Alabama), 1997

This digital document is an article from Education, published by Project Innovation (Alabama) on December 22, 1997. The length of the article is 2005 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: The laws of ignorance designed to keep ...