Cotton Was King: Indian Farms to Lauderdale County Plantations (Alabama Plantation Series)

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Rickey Butch Walker has captured the enormous role cotton played in the history of this region. Walker describes the importance of cotton and slavery for the Native Americans who first explored and used this area, now referred to as Lauderdale County, even before white settlers arrived. The first section on my own justifies the purchase of this book. Butch presents a wonderful account of the Indian claims to the land, at the side of stories of Doublehead and Chief George Colbert kin and the twisted dealing with the Government before the Indian Removal. The next section of the book describes the early white settlements that depended upon black slaves, and the final section details one of the Lauderdale County plantations, circle of relatives relationships, and holdings, pre-Civil War. Walker had the good thing about an unpublished manuscript of William L. McDonald, the distinguished local historian who kicked the bucket in 2009. Many of McDonald’s stories are nicely integrated right through the text. It is a valuable read for any person interested in local history.

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