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Clearing the thickets : a history of antebellum Alabama
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- Creator
- Herbert James Lewis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Orleans, Louisiana : Quid Pro Books, [2013]
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1610271653, 9781610271653, 1610271696, 9781610271691
- OCLC
- ocn830523304
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 313-330) and index.
- Introduction -- European invasion of native lands -- Implementation of Sargent's code -- Reign of Judge Harry Toulmin -- Creek War of 1813-1814 -- Alabama fever and Georgians bring on statehood -- Constitutional Convention of 1819 -- Governor William Wyatt Bibb and the advent of state government -- Rejection of the Georgia faction and removal of capital from Cahaba -- State government resumes in Tuscaloosa -- King cotton and slavery -- Montgomery becomes capital as secession looms -- Social and economic advances of frontier era end with war