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Slavery in Alabama Library of Alabama title: Classics author: Sellers, James Benson. publisher: University of Alabama Press isbn10 | asin: 0817305947 print isbn13: 9780817305949 ebook isbn13: 9780585238906 language: English Slavery--History.--Alabama , Alabama-- History--To 1819, Alabama--History--1819- subject 1950, Alabama--History--To 1819, Alabama--History--1819-1950. publication date: 1994 lcc: E445.A3.S4 1994eb ddc: 976.1/00496 Slavery--History.--Alabama , Alabama-- subject: History--To 1819, Alabama--History--1819- 1950, Alabama--History--To 1819, Alabama--History--1819-1950. Page i Slavery in Alabama Page ii The Library of Alabama Classics, reprint editions of works important to the history, literature, and culture of Alabama, is dedicated to the memory of Rucker Agee whose pioneering work in the fields of Alabama history and historical geography continues to be the standard of scholarly achievement. Page iii Slavery in Alabama James Benson Sellers With an Introduction by Harriet E. Amos Doss Page iv Copyright © 1950 The University of Alabama Press Introduction Copyright © 1994 The University of Alabama Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard of Information Science- Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sellers, James Benson, 1898-1964. Slavery in Alabama / James Benson Sellers : with an introduction by Harriet E. Amos Doss. p. cm. (The Library of Alabama classics) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8173-0594-7 (alk. paper) 1. SlaveryAlabamaHistory. 2. AlabamaHistoryTo 1819. 3. AlabamaHistory18191950. I. Title. II. Series. E445.A3S4 1994 976.1'0049dc20 93-43412 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available Page v To My Wife and Daughter Carrie Autrey Sellers Dorothy Sellers Page vii Contents Introduction by Harriet E. Amos Doss ix Preface xxv I 1 In the Colonial and Territorial Periods II 19 Plantation and Planters III 44 The Work of the Plantation: Overseer and Slave IV 81 The Slave and the Plantation V 141 Traffic in Slaves VI 195 Hired Slave and Town Slave VII 215 The Legal Status of the Slave VIII 242 Crimes and Punishments of Slaves IX 266 Runaways X 294 The Church and the Slave XI 332 The Defense of Slavery XII 361 The Free Negro in Alabama Before 1865 Bibliography 399 Index 411 Page viii Illustration Three Ex-Slaves Facing Page 78 Plantation Machinery Facing Page 79 Slave Galleries in Churches Facing Page 302 Homes of Masters and Slaves Facing Page 303
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