Clearing the Thickets
Subtitle: A History of Antebellum Alabama
By: Herbert James Lewis
Series: History & Heroes
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Orleans, La
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781610271653
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: History; Politics and government; Slavery
Notes: Includes bibliographic references  (p. 313-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: European invasion of native lands; title: Implementation of Sargent's code; title: Reign of Judge Harry Toulmin; title: Creek War of 1813-1814; title: Alabama fever and Georgians bring on statehood; title: Constitutional Convention of 1819; title: Governor William Wyatt Bibb and the advent of state government; title: Rejection of the Georgia faction and removal of capital from Cahaba; title: State government resumes in Tuscaloosa; title: King cotton and slavery; title: Montgomery becomes capital as secession looms; title: Social and economic advances of frontier era end with war.