1865 Alabama

1865 Alabama
Author: Christopher Lyle McIlwain
Publsiher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780817319533

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A detailed history of a vitally important year in Alabama history The year 1865 is critically important to an accurate understanding of Alabama’s present. In 1865 Alabama: From Civil War to Uncivil Peace Christopher Lyle McIlwain Sr. examines the end of the Civil War and the early days of Reconstruction in the state and details what he interprets as strategic failures of Alabama’s political leadership. The actions, and inactions, of Alabamians during those twelve months caused many self-inflicted wounds that haunted them for the next century. McIlwain recounts a history of missed opportunities that had substantial and reverberating consequences. He focuses on four factors: the immediate and unconditional emancipation of the slaves, the destruction of Alabama’s remaining industrial economy, significant broadening of northern support for suffrage rights for the freedmen, and an acute and lengthy postwar shortage of investment capital. Each element proves critically important in understanding how present-day Alabama was forged. Relevant events outside Alabama are woven into the narrative, including McIlwain’s controversial argument regarding the effect of Lincoln’s assassination. Most historians assume that Lincoln favored black suffrage and that he would have led the fight to impose that on the South. But he made it clear to his cabinet members that granting suffrage rights was a matter to be decided by the southern states, not the federal government. Thus, according to McIlwain, if Lincoln had lived, black suffrage would not have been the issue it became in Alabama. McIlwain provides a sifting analysis of what really happened in Alabama in 1865 and why it happened—debunking in the process the myth that Alabama’s problems were unnecessarily brought on by the North. The overarching theme demonstrates that Alabama’s postwar problems were of its own making. They would have been quite avoidable, he argues, if Alabama’s political leadership had been savvier.

The Scalawag In Alabama Politics 1865 1881

The Scalawag In Alabama Politics  1865   1881
Author: Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins
Publsiher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 1977-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780817305574

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Who was this scalawag? Simply a native, white, Alabama Republican! Scorned by his fellow white Southerners, he suffered, in his desire for socioeconomic reform and political power, more than mere verbal abuse and social ostracism; he lived constantly under the threat of physical violence. When first published in 1977, Wiggin’s treatment of the scalawag was the first book-length study of scalawags in any state, and it remains the most thorough treatment. According to The Journal of American History, this is the “most effective challenge to the scalawag stereotype yet to appear.”

Civil Wars Civil Beings and Civil Rights in Alabama s Black Belt

Civil Wars  Civil Beings  and Civil Rights in Alabama s Black Belt
Author: Bertis D. English
Publsiher: University Alabama Press
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780817320690

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How the 1863 elections in Perry County changed the course of Alabama's role in the Civil War In his fascinating, in-depth study, Bertis D. English analyzes why Perry county, situated in the heart of a violence-prone subregion, enjoyed more peaceful race relations and less bloodshed than several neighboring counties. Choosing an atypical locality as central to his study, English raises questions about factors affecting ethnic disturbances in the Black Belt and elsewhere in Alabama. He also uses Perry County, which he deems an anomalous county, to caution against the tendency of some scholars to make sweeping generalizations about entire regions and subregions. English contends Perry County was a relatively tranquil place with a set of extremely influential African American businessmen, clergy, politicians, and other leaders during Reconstruction. Together with egalitarian or opportunistic white citizens, they headed a successful campaign for black agency and biracial cooperation that few counties in Alabama matched. English also illustrates how a significant number of educational institutions, a high density of African American residents, and an unusually organized and informed African American population were essential factors in forming Perry's character. He likewise traces the development of religion in Perry, the nineteenth-century Baptist capital of Alabama, and the emergence of civil rights in Perry, an underemphasized center of activism during the twentieth century. This well-researched and comprehensive volume illuminates Perry County's history from the various perspectives of its black, interracial, and white inhabitants, amplifying their own voices in a novel way. The narrative includes rich personal details about ordinary and affluent people, both free and unfree, creating a distinctive resource that will be useful to scholars as well as a reference that will serve the needs of students and general readers.

Black Prisoners and Their World Alabama 1865 1900

Black Prisoners and Their World  Alabama  1865 1900
Author: Mary Ellen Curtin
Publsiher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0813919843

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This book traces the history of black prisoners in Alabama and their connections to and participation in the labor movement among miners in the late 19th century. Curtin (U. of Essex, UK) explores the convict- leasing system that ran most of Alabama's mines and its links to the African American transition out of slavery, illustrating the parallel transition from prisoner to coal miner. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Indiana in the War of the Rebellion

Indiana in the War of the Rebellion
Author: Indiana. Adjutant General's Office
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 864
Release: 1869
Genre: Indiana
ISBN: UOM:39015023261095

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Confederate Military History Alabama

Confederate Military History   Alabama
Author: Joseph W. Wheeler
Publsiher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2014-12-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781312726154

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This set was written by distinguished men of the South, producing a work which truly portrays the times and issues of the Confederacy. It was edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia. Two volumes--the first and the last--comprise such subjects as the justification of the Southern States in seceding from the Union and the honorable conduct of the war by the Confederate States government; the history of the actions and concessions of the South in the formation of the Union. There are also individual volumes for each state: Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas & Florida. An additional volume covers the Confederate Navy.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Subject Headings
Author: Library of Congress
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1352
Release: 2011
Genre: Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN: OSU:32435078789948

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Alabama

Alabama
Author: John Hamilton
Publsiher: ABDO
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781680774078

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Welcome to Alabama, the Yellowhammer State! Students will explore the Sipsey Wilderness, attend a race at the Talladega Superspeedway, tour the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and more as they learn about Alabama's history, plants and animals, industries, sports, cities, famous people, and more in this fun-fact filled title. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing.