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Journal of African American History | 1950

The Negro in Alabama During the Civil War

Robert D. Reid

Negro slaves performed varied tasks in Alabama during the course of the Civil War. In many instances they took the places of whites on railroad and steamship lines and in factories, mines, and ironworks. Skilled and unskilled Negro labor was in greater demand on the plantations and in the towns and cities than at any time during the antebellum period. Particularly after 1862, there were frequent newspaper advertisements, seeking the services of Negroes for various types of work which had previously been done almost altogether by white persons. By an act of 1861 the Governor of Alabama was authorized to accept the services of slaves, offered by certain slaveholders, to the extent that he deemed necessary. This act was passed shortly before the outbreak of hostilities, and the slaves were probably offered to aid in the preparation of defenses. In October of the following year the Governor was empowered to impress slaves between eighteen and forty-five years of age as laborers. Unless there was an imminence of danger, no slave of an owner of less than ten Negroes could be impressed. White overseers were to be selected for every thirty Negroes. Owners who resisted this act could be fined a minimum of three hundred dollars and given a three months jail sentence. Tools, wagons, and other equipment owned by slaveholders could be commandeered by the state.2 An amendment to this act, passed on November 17, 1864, provided that the sheriff was to summon a posse of at least twenty men and seize double the value of the property if an owner attempted to thwart the enforcement of this act.3 Especially were slaves desired for work on fortifica-


Journal of African American History | 1957

J. H. Parry and P. M. Sherlock, A Short History of the West Indies

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Journal of African American History | 1956

Joseph Frazier Wall, Henry Watterson: Reconstructed Rebel

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Journal of African American History | 1955

Albert Virgil House, ed., Planter Management and Capitalism in Ante-Bellum Georgia: The Journal of Hugh Fraser Grant, Ricegrower

Robert D. Reid


Journal of African American History | 1954

Glover Moore, The Missouri Controversy 1819-1821

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Journal of African American History | 1954

Avery O. Craven, The Growth of Southern Nationalism 1848-1861

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Journal of African American History | 1952

Allen Johnston Going, Bourbon Democracy in Alabama 1874-1890

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Journal of African American History | 1951

James Benson Sellers, Slavery in Alabama

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Journal of African American History | 1950

Walter L. Fleming, Civil War and Reconstruction in AlabamaWalter L. Fleming, Documentary History of Reconstruction

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Journal of African American History | 1949

S. A. Stouffer, E. A. Suchman, L. C. De Vinney, S. A. Star, and R. M. Williams, Jr., The American Soldier: Adjustment During Army Life

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