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By 1861 nearly 45% of the population of Alabama were slaves, and slave plantation agriculture was the center of the Alabama economy. [ 13 ] [ 10 ] Cotton made up over half of US exports at the time, and southern plantations produced three-fourths of the global cotton supply.
After being a part of the Mississippi Territory (1798–1817) and then the Alabama Territory (1817–1819), Alabama would become a U.S. state on December 14, 1819.
After the election of Abraham Lincoln from the anti-slavery Republican Party in 1860, plus the prior secession declarations of South Carolina, Mississippi, and Florida, Alabama delegates also voted to secede from the United States, on January 11, 1861, in order to join and form a slaveholding Southern republic, [4] mostly of the Cotton States. [5]
Alabama (/ ˌ æ l ə ˈ b æ m ə / ⓘ AL-ə-BAM-ə) [9] is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th largest by area, and the 24th-most populous of the 50 U.S. states. [10] [11]
Their idea is that students get only a pretty picture of America — minus its brutal history of slavery, Jim Crow, white supremacy, racism, discrimination and ever-present implicit bias.
There were, nonetheless, some slaves in most free states up to the 1840 census, and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as implemented by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, provided that a slave did not become free by entering a free state and must be returned to their owner. Enforcement of these ...
The exhibition in Mobile, Ala., illustrates how the Clotilda illegally transported 110 captive people from Africa in 1860 and what became of them after they were later freed.
The history of the domestic slave trade can very clumsily be divided into three major periods: 1776 to 1808: This period began with the Declaration of Independence and ended when the importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean was prohibited under federal law in 1808; the importation of slaves was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed ...