Shortly after the Civil War, the J.W. 1, 1891 Eliza Lowe HenryAug. 27, 1893 Mack Segars CrenshawJan. Some of electronic publishing on another site without the consent of 16, 1920 Pete Zeigler AutaugaJuly 28, 1921 Jordan ChoctawJan. Death records for Alabama state convicts who died while either a prisoner in custody or on parole are in this database. (6,400%). population during that time, and were therefore more likely possible places of relocation for colored persons from Barbour On January 29, 1858, Alabama supporters of slavery, objecting to Benton's change of heart, renamed Benton County as Calhoun County. 3, 1902 Samuel Harris LeeJune 30, 1903 Andrew Diggs JacksonNov. 8, 1915 James Fox MonroeAug. Categories: Alabama, Slavery | United States of America, Slave Owners. 16, 1925 Grant Cole MontgomeryApril 25, 1926 Lillie Cobb BlountOct. He mentions slaves on the Selwood Plantation, Talladega Co., by name. in comparing census data for 1870 and 1960, the transcriber did not take into consideration any relevant changes in county former owner in 1870, vary widely and from region to region. 2, 1919 Unnamed man ClarkeSept. It may be that when, only a few years ago, you girded on your cartridge-box and shouldered your trusty rifle, to go meet the invaders of your country, you committed to his care your home and your loves ones; and when you were far away upon the weary march, upon the dreadful battlefield, in the trenches, and on the picket line, many and many a time you thought of that faithful old negro and your heart warmed towards him , These words, Mr. Clayton thought, indicated the condition into which the country had been plunged by the termination of the war. When Alabama seceded from the Union in 1861, the state's 435,080 slaves made up 45 percent of the total population. 16, 1899 Charles Hurt CrenshawAug. Proctor said that's important to carrying the history forward. It seems like more people are bitter about slavery today over 150 years later than the people who lived through it. This page was last modified 08:33, 11 May 2021. Census Online - Alabama - 1850. Following the end of the war during the Reconstruction era, freed slaves were technically allowed to leave the plantations they had been enslaved on, but they mostly were without land, jobs, or money. 30, 1896 William Taylor MonroeDec. Discusses the causes of the rebellion and the right of Texans to be in a state of revolution against the Government of Mexico. 1850 Federal Census Barbour County, Alabama (Source: MyHeritage) ($) Alabama State Census, 1820-1866 Barbour County (Source: Explore Ancestry for free) ($) United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 Barbour County (Source: FamilySearch) 1840 Number of 1850 County White Slave Total Families White Slave Totall 3, 1910 Bush Withers CovingtonOct. In 1845, Hardy Clemens was a wealthy plantation and slave owner who owned a farm near Coaling, Alabamaon the banks of Big Sandy Creek, about 12 miles east of Tuscaloosa. Racial lynchings, usually defined as unprosecuted murders that occurred at the hands of mobs or unidentified people, began in 1877 in Alabama, and ended in 1943. the surname of the slaveholder, can check this list for the surname. RoadSnacks is reader-supported. 13, 1892 John Packard MonroeOct. [8][9] Part of the frontier in the 1820s and 1830s, its constitution provided for universal suffrage for white men. City of Wilmington 99. This website does not support violence. It was owned (in the 1800's) by John Rufus Blocker. providing space for this site Comer, slave owner, mine operator, planter;Carrie Gertrude Seay Comer wife of J.W. By the 1870 census, the white population of Barbour County had The memorial lists the names of 4,400 lynchings of black people in 800 U.S. counties from 1877 through 1950. He mentions baptisms etc. More: Alabama history tour covers Civil War, cotton - not slaves, Slaves that belonged to ministers recalled having better lives than most. Historic Chattahoochee Commission, Box 33, Eufaula, AL 36072-0033, Phone 334-687-9755. 13, 1933 A. T. Hardin BibbAug. To check a master surname list for other States and In 1838, its administration sold 272 men, women, and children and used the profits to keep the university afloat, according to a New York Times report from April. 29, 1919 Robert Croskey MontgomerySept. Slaves in the Records of the Monroe Session, North Alabama Presbytery 1823-1827, Slaves deeded from George Anderson to son William Anderson Jun 1831, Slaves sold by William Anderson to various Feb 1836, Will [Aug 1840] and Appraisement of Estate of Nicholas Zeigler Mar 1841, Slave owned by J. R. Upshaw in the records of Liberty Baptist Church Sep 1846, Slaves in the Will of Elizabeth Ingram Oct 1851, Notebook kept by Dr. Thomas Fearn of Huntsville, Alabama, from about 1852 to 1863, Slaves in the Will of Samuel Ingram Nov 1839, Slaves in the Will of Thomas Youngblood Apr 1863, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrants, 1859 List of Munsee from Leavenworth County Kansas, 1876-1878 Pacific Coast Business Directory, St. Charles Countys Participation in the World War, Oglethorpe University Publications Online, Maryville High School Yearbooks, 1919-1977, Maryville College, Tennessee, Yearbooks, 1906-2009, 1892-2008 Quincy High School Yearbooks Golden Rod. 20, 1899 Son of Peter Louin ElmoreNov. Comer] ASSOCIATED FREE PERSONS Comer family: John . Many black laborers refused to continue working the plantations, and chose to migrate to southern urban areas in large numbers.[13][15]. their free, non-commercial distribution, and further, is The museum and memorial is believed to be the nation's first site to document racial inequality from slavery through the Jim Crow era and into the present. right corner of every set of two pages, with the previous stamped number and a "B" being used to designate the pages Particularly in the case of 25, 1916 Richard Burton SumterJuly 1, 1916 Sam Meeks PickensJan. lower because some large holders held slaves in more than one County and they would have been counted as a separate All images used such age enumerated, out of a total of 3,950,546 slaves nationwide. 5, 1882 John Brooks CalhounApril 10, 1883 Samuel Lewis EtowahApril 28, 1883 George Ware LauderdaleJune 13, 1883 Jordan Corbin CoosaJune 22, 1883 Harry Reed LimestoneJune 22, 1883 Kyle Walker LimestoneOct. It wasnt until the 1910s that the exodus became a flood and that was due to the attraction of wartime industries and the final ruin of the Cotton Kingdom at the hands of soil erosion and the boll weevil. Nov. 2, 1877 Owen Wright RussellDec. The average size of household for slaveowners and non-slaveowners was nearly identical, totaling 6.4 and 6.3 respectively. 5, 1931 Neal Quinn LowndesAug. census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published They hoed potatoes and tobacco, but Rev. See also list of Statewide Alabama Archives, Historical & Genealogical Societies. The collection also contains a list of military pension and bounty land applications. You may be bound by a thousand ties which only a Southern man knows, and which he alone can feel in all its force. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. viewed to see if there were smaller slaveholders with that surname. 22, 1895 Dick Henderson WashingtonFeb. 8, 1877 Mark Woodford ClarkeApril 17, 1878 Ben Evans MadisonApril 17, 1878 Ephraim Hall MadisonSept. Autauga County Alabama Slave Owners Slaves deeded from George Anderson to son William Anderson - Jun 1831 Slaves sold by William Anderson to various - Feb 1836 Will [Aug 1840] and Appraisement of Estate of Nicholas Zeigler - Mar 1841 Barbour County Alabama Slave Owners Slave owned by J. R. Upshaw in the records of Liberty Baptist Church - Sep . Manager, The USGenWeb Archive Project - Alabama File 9, 1881 Shade Thompson BarbourJuly 22, 1881 Albert Brooks Barbour, April 14, 1882 Henry Ivy DallasApril 14, 1882 Sam Acoff DallasAug. Division, and those over 150 in the Western Division. One of Parkers younger bosses kidnapped Parkerafter the Civil War ended and took him to Texas. The color barrier is not as profound as it was during our time period, Proctor said. Their stories include the inhumanity of their conditions: children having to eat out of troughs, and field slaves being herded into pens like cattle. Alice Campbell [acampbell@nconline.com] . WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. (As a side note, by 1960, 100 years 27, 1903 Arthur Stewart WilcoxApril 20, 1904 Ruben Sims BaldwinApril 20, 1904 Gaines Hall AutaugaJune 20, 1904 Charlie Harris TallapoosaJune 20, 1904 Ephraim Pope WilcoxJune 23, 1904 Joe Scott BibbJuly 9, 1904 Will Roberts PickensAug. 100. 9, 1883 Wesley Brown MadisonNov. The African slave trade was first brought to Alabama when the region was part of the French Louisiana Colony. Slavery was officially abolished in the United States, following the end of the US Civil War by the Thirteenth Amendment which took effect on December 18, 1865. In the second, dated 16 December 1841, Beene expresses dissatisfaction with both shoes and prices. TERMINOLOGY. Alabama Vital Records P.O. Philip Pendleton Barbour was a member of the House of Delegates (1812-1814), Speaker of the House of Representatives (1821-1823), president of the Convention of 1829-1830, a federal district court judge (1830-1836), and an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1836-1841). Molly Ammond (Ammonds) Charity Anderson. 18, 1914 William Jones LowndesJan. 1, 1899 Andrew Sloss LawrenceFebruary 28 (? Ironaton Alabama (Talladega County) Narrative of Jackson, the Vice-President's Slave. 1, 1898 John Kellogg CherokeeMarch 20, 1898 John Callow CherokeeMarch 21, 1898 Sam Ellis DallasJune 17, 1898 Ham Thompson ElmoreJune 17, 1898 Louis Spier ElmoreJune 17, 1898 Reese Thompson ElmoreJune 17, 1898 Soloman Jackson ElmoreJuly 13, 1898 Sidney Johnson TuscaloosaJuly 15, 1898 John S. Durrett TuscaloosaAug. 8, 1894 Samuel Smith ButlerFeb. 30, 1919 John Temple MontgomeryJan. 9, 1896 Joseph Leeds St. ClairFeb. Here are the names of those 340 victims, listed by year, month and day, recording their names and the counties where they died. 1331. no records available, decreased 17% to 12,143, while the "colored" population increased 6% to 17,165. 21, 1879 Squire Smith RussellJune. 13, 1892 Burrill Jones MonroeOct. The USGenWeb Archives Project is part of The USGenWeb Project. 4, 1908 Will Millen JeffersonAug. project of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery legal advocacy group. When the Civil War reached Alabama, he buried about $100,000 in gold somewhere on his property. Visit our Tourism Page Relocation Services Download a Visitors Guide 22, 1896 Joseph James BibbJan. Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, and Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall. 28, 1897 James Jackson BibbMarch 15, 1897 Andy Beard PickensMarch 18, 1897 John Smith JacksonMay 11, 1897 Amanda Franks MadisonMay 11, 1897 Mollie Smith MadisonMay 30, 1897 John Hayden LamarJune 21, 1897 George Bradley MonroeJuly 3, 1897 Jim Thomas JeffersonJuly 17, 1897 Edmonson LauderdaleJuly 19, 1897 George Richardson TallapoosaJuly 19, 1897 James Daniel CoosaAug. A. M., 145 slaves page 135B, WILEY, L. M., Silas Jones agent, 190 slaves page 95, WILLIAMS, Gazanay? and to the volunteers who sponsor the counties and everyone who to transcribe and send in your records or photos or 30, 1907 Neal Sanders CovingtonJuly 29, 1908 Lige Nelms JeffersonAug. 1850 Census - Alabama . Whether or not the ancestor is found to have been a slaveholder, a viewing of the slave census will provide an informed 27, 1885 Alexander Reed ClarkeApril 20, 1886 Unnamed man JeffersonOct. The narratives offer rare first-person insight into one of the cruelest institutions in American history. Buy newspaper front pages, posters and more. 1, 1912 William Smith JeffersonNov. Comer; Braxton Bragg Comer (1848-1911) son of J.F. Negro slave owners were listed in 29 Kentucky counties (see below). Autauga County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Baldwin County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Barbour County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 6, 0), Benton County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Bibb County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 12, 4), Blount County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Bullock County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Butler County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Calhoun County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 1), Chambers County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 29, 5), Cherokee County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Choctaw County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 4), Clarke County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 10, 1), Coffee County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Colbert County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Conecuh County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 0), Coosa County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Covington County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Crenshaw County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Dallas County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 1), Fayette County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Franklin County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Greene County, Alabama, Slave Owners (1, 25, 9), Hale County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Henry County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 0), Jefferson County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Lauderdale County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 9, 0), Lawrence County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 15, 1), Limestone County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Lowndes County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 0), Macon County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 4), Madison County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 24, 8), Marengo County, Alabama, Slave Owners (1, 22, 19), Marion County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Marshall County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Mobile County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 4), Monroe County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 12, 3), Montgomery County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 11, 1), Morgan County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 10, 1), Perry County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 16, 5), Pickens County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Pike County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Randolph County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 1), Russell County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 14, 1), Shelby County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), St. Clair County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 1), Sumter County, Alabama, Slave Owners (2, 15, 7), Talladega County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 21, 1), Tallapoosa County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 1), Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 11, 3), Washington County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 1), Wilcox County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 12, 0). and C.L.D. Siney Bonner. No flaming or trolling. Huntsville, Alabama served as temporary capital from 1819 to 1820, when the seat of government moved to Cahaba in Dallas County. The perpetrators were rarely prosecuted in most cases. If the surname is not on this list, the microfilm can be However, the data should be checked for the particular surname to see the extent of the matching. 5. The man above is John Wallace Comer and his body servant Burrell. household.9 As a Russell County resident in 1843 he and several Davis relatives gave a power of attorney to his brother-in-law Windell Davis back in Duplin County.10 In 1850 he was enumerated in Barbour County, Alabama but by the 1855 state census was in Macon County. If the surname is found, they can then view the microfilm has donated files to the site. or here 23, 1886 John Davis BibbJune 2, 1887 Unnamed man BibbAug. 10, 1922 Wm. 2, 1901 Louis McAdams Shelby1901 3 3 Bud Davis Lawrence1901 5 1 Dock Mays DallasMay 1, 1901 Edward Mays DallasMay 1, 1901 Robert Dawson DallasMay 10, 1901 Charles Winston JeffersonMay 30, 1901 Frank Reeves ButlerJune 15, 1901 Joe Harris LimestoneJune 28, 1901 Billie Magruder BarbourJuly 2, 1901 Robert White ElmoreJuly 15, 1901 Alexander Herman LawrenceAug. Alabama, Alt-South, American South, Culture, Dixie, History, Identity, Negroes, Race Relations, Slavery, southern heritage, Southern History Series, White Supremacy Alabama. Jenkins BarbourDec. 14, 1893 William Archer PickensSept. Barbour County, accounting for 6,860 slaves, or 42% of the County total. Three years ago, the collection was made public in its entirety, offering raw testimony from the mouths of slaves. Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, and Appomattox Counties 1333. 8, 1943 Willie Lee Cooper Monroe. FORMAT. the same restrictions/permissions. The last U.S. census slave schedules were enumerated by County in 1860 and included 393,975 named persons holding Sometimes when the narratives are truly graphic in nature, I cant help but sit and cry. Comer, Your email address will not be published. 11, 1906 Bunk Richardson EtowahOct. Alabama was one of the first seven states to withdraw from the Union prior to the American Civil War . ALGenWeb Project - Barbour County, Alabama, The USGenWeb 11, 1910 Grant Richardson BibbDec. http://www.heritagequest.com/ . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Comer, http://www.gardenandgunland.com/land/old-spring-hill-plantation/388. is found on the 1870 census, then making the link to finding that ancestor as a slave requires advanced research techniques 6, 1906 Corneilius Robinson MobileOct. 8) of Perry County. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. Following the patenting of the cotton gin (in 1793), the War of 1812, and the defeat and expulsion of the Creek Nation in the 1810s, European-American settlement in Alabama was intensified, as was the presence of slavery on newly established plantations in the territory. (8%); Florida, up 27,000 (41%); Ohio, up 26,000 (70%); Indiana, up 25,000 (127%); and Kansas up from 265 to 17,000 Youre talking about my people, Proctor said. 21, 1908 Anthony Davis JeffersonOct. Topical and respectful comments are welcome. 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. Alabama cemetery records, Vol. 3, 1910 Unnamed man TalladegaOct. When you read the report, its because they were fed the same thing the masters family was fed.. Augusta County 1334. In April 2018, EJI opened two new sites in Montgomery, Alabama: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, featuring the names of more than 4000 African American victims of racial terror lynching killed between 1877 and 1950; and The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. Between 1860 and For (the youth), they get a whole different perspective. Alabama Historical Plantations. Reading these wills may provide the reader with a clue on their ancestors. demonstrates the importance of the local story in Alabama economics and politics. census. Box 5616 Montgomery, AL 36103-5616; Phone: (334) 242-7200; Fax: (334) 242-4993 All persons contributing term "slaveholder" rather than "slave owner", so that questions of justice and legality of claims of ownership need not be 2009. P.O. 13, 1897 John Bonner LamarDec. Since the collection was released online, Proctor said the response has been overwhelmingly positive, despite a few negative comments. LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES, SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS. American Slave Narratives: An Anthology Online . please click here He may have been the companion of your boyhood. slaveholder in each County. who did not stay in this county? 25, 1891 Two unnamed men ButlerSept. Send cash, checks or money orders to our P.O. Black Families of Alabama's Black Belt: Butler, Dallas, Lowndes, Marengo, Perry, and Wilcox Co. Doll's Genealogy Site: focus on Macon Co. Large Slaveholders of 1860: extraction of many slaveholders in various Alabama counties The Village: Alabama Slave Project So begins the account of Bill Russell, one of 11 former Alabama slaves whose stories of servitude have been made public as part of a universitys collection of narratives gathered from interviews with former slaves. 4, 1899 Marshall McGregor PikeJune 6, 1899 William Hill BibbJuly 30, 1899 Solomon Jones ButlerAug. Associated Pages: none, 1850:42 slaves [1850 Federal Slave Schedule, Barbour Co., AL, J.F. Due to variable film quality, BROWDER, Est. He loaded Comer in a boat and rowed him 260 miles down the Chattahoochee River to Columbus, GA where his mother met him and took him back to the plantation in Spring Hill where he recuperated his health. Gus Askew. Entire state . Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. U.S. Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information 1850 Slave Schedules Pike County (Source: Explore Ancestry for free) ($) 1860 Slave Schedules (Source: Explore Ancestry for free) ($) Pike County (Source: Sankofagen Wiki) United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 Pike County (Source: FamilySearch) Estate Records on these pages is freely available to the Originally Benton County Located at USGenWeb Archives: Calhoun Co., AL [Report Broken Link] Chambers Co. 1.6 Receipt, for sale of a slave by M. A. Williams, dated January 14, 1858, Dallas County, Alabama 1 item, 1 leaf 1.7 Facsimile of the Declaration of the People of Texas to General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana. 22, 1935 Jim P. Meriwether LowndesFeb. It is possible to locate a free person on the Barbour County, Alabama If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. ADMINS, ESTATE, PROBATE, GUARDIANSHIP, SLAVE RECORDS Counties, return to Home and Links Page. Learn more. ", Plantation complexes in the Southern United States, "Old Cahawba, Alabama's first state capital, 1820 to 1826", "Alabama's population: 1800 to the modern era", "The Birth of Jim Crow in Alabama 1865-1896", "Sharecropping and Tenant Farming in Alabama", Alabama Department of Archives and History, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_slavery_in_Alabama&oldid=1128842893, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 22 December 2022, at 07:22. Included are records of cotton and corn planted, picked, and stored, Slavery had been theoretically abolished by President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which proclaimed, in 1863, that only slaves located in territories that were in rebellion from the United States were free. Autauga, Baldwin, and Barbour Counties 2. . Wyecott Plantation-BARBOUR COUNTY: Coffey Plantation-CHEROKEE COUNTY: Oakchia Plantation -CHOCTAW COUNTY: . When you click through real estate links on our site, we earn an affiliate commission. ***. Well that was an interesting perspective. 26, 1897 John Pharr MonroeSept. If life was so awful here, most of them would have left but they didnt after the war. slaves, the 1860 U.S. population was 27,167,529, with about 1 in 70 being a slaveholder. 2, 1907 Frank Lucas WashingtonNov. 2, 1897 John Tompkins MonroeNov. 21, 1879 Bill King RussellDec. 1, 1891 William Williams HenryAug. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Barbour County, Alabama, Slave Owners]] . indexes almost always do not include the slave census. Slaves deeded from George Anderson to son William Anderson - Jun 1831 Slaves sold by William Anderson to various - Feb 1836 Will [Aug 1840] and Appraisement of Estate of Nicholas Zeigler - Mar 1841 Barbour County Alabama Slave Owners Slave owned by J. R. Upshaw in the records of Liberty Baptist Church - Sep 1846 Chambers County Alabama Slave Owners But the ex-slaves nevertheless chose to remain. 18, 1915 Herman Deely MadisonJanuary 1915 Dock Hartley ButlerMay 3, 1915 Jesse Hatch ClarkeAug. 22, 1907 Moses Dossett MobileNov. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information on how to document slaves and slave owners. Genealogical and historical data from the period of antebellum enslavement of Africans in the US, Location: Spring Hill, Barbour County, Alabama This is a mid-level category and should not have individual profiles added to it. 14, 1893 Ed Guyton PickensSept. It was a miserable time and Im glad you didnt have to go through it. 10, 1900 Zeb Floyd ElmoreOct. 6, 1909 Will Parker MonroeApril 25, 1909 John Thomas JeffersonSept. 1, 1889 Unnamed man ShelbySept. Do not promote, suggest, glorify or incite violence in the comment section. 21, 1886 Three unidentified men PickensNov. [11][12], By 1861 nearly 45% of the population of Alabama were slaves, and slave plantation agriculture was the center of the Alabama economy. It was still hard to take myself out of it. 10, 1912 Berney ElmoreDec. Oliver Bell. (Source: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers ' Project, 1936 - 1938: Library of Congress Web site). The museum and memorial is believed to be the nation's first site to document racial inequality from slavery through the Jim Crow era and into the present. Do not promote or share conspiracy theories or links to truther websites in the comments. Thousands of Negroes, uneducated, unfitted for anything except to obey and do their duty as directed, were given their freedom and the privilege of citizenship.

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