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Party Politics in Alabama from 1850 through 1860
By Lewy Dorman; Introduction by Leah Rawls Atkins
University of Alabama Press
Lewy Dorman’s Party Politics in Alabama From 1850 Through 1860 reveals the flow of political events and the people behind these events during the critical decade preceding the Civil War.
Slavery in Alabama
By James Benson Sellers; Introduction by Harriet E. Amos Doss
University of Alabama Press
The only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in Alabama
Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt
University of Alabama Press
Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt provides a fascinating portrait of the conditions of black people and the state of race relations in Alabama at the turn of the twentieth century, and of author William J. Edwards' determination to uplift his race through eductation in the years following Reconstruction.
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches
By Johnson Jones Hooper; Introduction by Johanna Nicol Shields
University of Alabama Press
A series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era
They Live on The Land
Life in an Open Country Southern Community
University of Alabama Press
Letters from Alabama
Chiefly Relating to Natural HIstory
University of Alabama Press
With the skills of a scientist and the temperament of an artist, Gosse set down an account of natural life in frontier Alabama that has no equal. Written to no one in particular, a common literary device of the period, the letters were first published in a magazine, and in 1859 appeared as a book. By that time Gosse was an established scholar and one of England’s most noted scientific illustrators.
The Third Door
The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman
By Ellen Tarry; Introduction by Nellie Y. McKay
University of Alabama Press
Tarry relates her life against the background of a changing American society
Bourbon Democracy in Alabama, 1874–1890
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes and describes the state government of Alabama during the Bourbon Period as it operated under the Democratic and Conservative party
The Butterfly Tree
By Robert E. Bell; Introduction by Thomas Rountree
University of Alabama Press
A love affair with a place—the legendary eastern shore of Mobile Bay
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