His father died from a cholera epidemic while visiting Augusta in 1833 ; although James's mother and the rest of the family moved to Somerville, Alabama, following his father's death James remained with uncle Augustus.

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* Alabama, 1833, section 31-" Any person or persons who attempt to teach any free person of color, or slave, to spell, read, or write, shall, upon conviction thereof by indictment, be fined in a sum not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.

* Alabama, 1833, section 32-" Any free person of color who shall write for any slave a pass or free paper, on conviction thereof, shall receive for every such offense, thirty-nine lashes on the bare back, and leave the state of Alabama within thirty days thereafter ..."

* Laws of the State of Alabama, 1833

Murphy represented Alabama in the United States House of Representatives from 1833 to 1835.

In 1833, he moved with his parents to Calhoun County, Alabama, where he attended frontier schools and then studied law in Tuskegee with justice William Parish Chilton, his brother-in-law.

Pratt decided to go it alone, and moved to central Alabama in 1833 with his wife, two slaves, and enough materials to construct 50 gins.

He served in the Fort Mitchell army garrison in Alabama from 1833 to 1834.

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.

The Old Alabama Stagecoach Road, a well-traveled stagecoach and wagon-freight line between Augusta and Columbus, ran from the northeastern section of Upson County, crossing the Flint River at Double Bridges

In Reconstruction-era Alabama, an incident at Cross Plains affected race relations and the future of the northeast section of the state for generations as a result of the lynching of William Luke, a northern missionary, and several other men in 1870.

It is included in the Columbus, Georgia-Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area, but a section is located in Lee County, and is, therefore, in the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Statistical Area in Alabama.

Madison was the site of a battle in the American Civil War on March 16, 1864, when Col. Josiah Patterson's 5th Alabama Cavalry, supported by Col. James H. Stuart's cavalry battalion and a section of horse artillery, drove Col. Adam G. Gorgas's 13th Illinois Infantry Regiment from the city.

This complex of racetracks and entertainment venues is planned to be on nearly of land near the intersection of Industrial Parkway ( Alabama State Route 158 ) and US Highway 45 in the northern section of Prichard.

The township is located in the Kittatinny Valley which is a section of the 700 mile long Great Appalachian Valley that stretches from Canada to Alabama.

The township is located in the Kittatinny Valley which is a section of the 700 mile long Great Appalachian Valley that stretches from Canada to Alabama.

The township is located in the Kittatinny Valley which is a section of the 700 mile long Great Appalachian Valley that stretches from Canada to Alabama.

The township is located in the Kittatinny Valley which is a section of the Great Appalachian Valley that stretches from Canada to Alabama.

The township is located in the Kittatinny Valley which is a section of the 700 mile long Great Appalachian Valley that stretches from Canada to Alabama.

The township is located in the Kittatinny Valley which is a section of the 700 mile long Great Appalachian Valley that stretches from Canada to Alabama.

The township is located in the Kittatinny Valley which is a section of the 700 mile long Great Appalachian Valley that stretches from Canada to Alabama.

The part of the township east of the Kittatinny Ridge ( the part excluding the now defunct Pahaquarry Township ) is located in the Kittatinny Valley which is a section of the 700 mile long Great Appalachian Valley that stretches from Canada to Alabama.

The township is located in the Kittatinny Valley which is a section of the 700 mile long Great Appalachian Valley that stretches from Canada to Alabama.

The township is located in the Kittatinny Valley which is a section of the 700 mile long Great Appalachian Valley that stretches from Canada to Alabama.

US 80 crosses the Chattahoochee River from Alabama into Columbus, where it proceeds along J. R. Allen Parkway through the northern section of the city.

The largest section is the part of today's J line running above Fulton Street from the Alabama Avenue station to a small section turning north after the Crescent Street station.

Joseph N. Gallo was born on January 8, 1912 in Alabama, but grew up in the Little Italy section of Manhattan.

Any description of Belgreen would be incomplete without a given history of Belgreen High School, which has existed just south of Alabama Highway 24 for over sixty years.

A similar recipe appears in 1881 in a book by Abby Fisher, the first Black American woman and a former slave from Mobile, Alabama, who recorded her recipes in a cookbook called What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, Soups, Pickles, Preserves, Etc.

At the 1858 Southern commercial convention, William L. Yancey of Alabama called for the reopening of the African slave trade.

The Alabama extremist William Lowndes Yancey's demand for a federal slave code for the territories split the Democratic Party between North and South, which made the election of Lincoln possible.

Yancy's previous 1848 attempt at demanding a slave code for the territories was his Alabama Platform, which was in response to the Northern Wilmot Proviso attempt at banning slavery in territories conquered from Mexico.

James, like his wife, a graduate of what was to be Alabama State University was employed as a clerk in the Railway Service of the United States Post Office, and his father was a slave.

He spent most of his time managing the family's extensive land and slave holdings in North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee.

“ In cases like this ,” the Supreme Court of Alabama wrote, “ the law upon high grounds of public policy pretermits for a moment the relation of master and slave, takes the slave out of the hands of his master, forgets his claims and rights of property.

Up from Slavery is the 1902 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his work to rise from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools — most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama — to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps.

The grandson of a slave, A. G. Gaston was born in a log cabin in Demopolis, Alabama, to Tom and Rosa McDonald Gaston ; however, he grew up in the home of his grandparents, Joe and Idella Gaston.

William Hooper Councill ( 1848 – 1909 ) was a former slave and the first president of Huntsville Normal School, which is today Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Huntsville, Alabama.

He was born a slave in Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1848 and taken to Huntsville, Alabama by slave traders in 1857.

Nancy was the financial manager of the family, developing an Alabama slave cotton plantation.

Born in 1870 as the son of former slave Matilda Ivy, he moved from Alabama to Mississippi in 1890.

Because Alabama was geographically central to the slave states, Montgomery was also the original capital of the Confederate States of America.