The slave population on the island grew after the Spanish crown granted import rights to its citizens, but did not reach its peak until the 18th century. Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin migrant workers collection. WebALABAMA SLAVE WORKPLACES Listed by County and Workplace Title Followed by Owner (s). For information about reproducing, publishing, and citing material from this collection, as well as access to the original items, see: U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information, More about Copyright and other Restrictions. Following the patenting of the cotton gin (in 1793), the War of 1812, and the defeat and expulsion of the Creek Nation in the 1810s, European-American settlement in Alabama was intensified, as was the presence of slavery on newly established plantations in the territory. [46] But from the beginning, in accordance with the custom of the Atlantic slave trade, most of this relatively small group, appear to have been treated as slaves, with "African" or "negro" becoming synonymous with "slave". WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. [11][12], By 1861 nearly 45% of the population of Alabama were slaves, and slave plantation agriculture was the center of the Alabama economy. Slavery Enslaved Africans performed a wide variety of skilled and unskilled jobs, mostly in the burgeoning port city and surrounding agricultural areas. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
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