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  2. History of slavery in Alabama - Wikipedia

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    The slave trade continued unabated in Alabama until at least 1863, with busy markets in Mobile and Montgomery largely undisputed by the war. [ 15 ] : 99–100 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 ...

  3. Alabama in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Issues of slavery also were divided, with emancipation denied, but slaves protected, allowed trial by jury same as free whites, and African Slave Trade was discouraged in the 1861 Ordinances. Alabama provided a significant source of troops and leaders, military material, supplies, food, horses and mules.

  4. African Americans in Alabama - Wikipedia

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    African American family in Alabama. Black slaves arrived in present-day Alabama during the late 18th and early 19th century in the Mississippi Territory. At the time of the 1800 Census there were 517 black people in the Alabama portion of the Mississippi Territory, with 494 slaves and 23 free blacks.

  5. Alabama’s Legacy Museum shows that the long reach of slavery ...

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    While walking through the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, and then the National Memorial for Peace and Justice last month in Montgomery, Alabama, I couldn’t help but ...

  6. List of Alabama slave traders - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of slave traders working in Alabama from settlement until 1865: Anderson, Alabama [1] David Avery, Alabama [2] Barnard & Howard, Montgomery, Ala. [3] Bates, Virginia and Mobile, Ala. [4] Robert Booth, Richmond and Alabama [5] James Cooper, Montgomery, Ala. [6] William Cooper, Alabama [7] Samuel J. Dawson, Natchez, [8] Washington ...

  7. New museum in Alabama tells history of last known slave ... - AOL

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    The museum includes a brief history of the transatlantic slave trade and highlights the survivors of the 45-day journey from Africa, AL.com reported.It tells the story of its most famous passenger ...

  8. History of Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (3rd ed. 2018; 1st ed. 1994), 816pp; the standard scholarly history online older edition; online 2018 edition; Alabama State Department of Education. History of Education in Alabama (Bulletin 1975, No. 7.O) Online free; Bridges, Edwin C. Alabama: The Making of an American State (2016) 264pp excerpt

  9. New museum in Alabama tells history of last known slave ship ...

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    The museum includes a brief history of the transatlantic slave trade and highlights the survivors of the 45-day journey from Africa, AL.com reported. It tells the story of its most famous ...