Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction: How to Use This Book

 

Section I: An Overview

Chapter 1: How to Begin

Chapter 2: Oral History

Chapter 3: Official Records

Chapter 4: Migration Patterns

Chapter 5: Records Pertaining to Slavery in Alabama

Chapter 6: Historical Preservation and Family history

Chapter 7: Freedmen’s Bureau in Alabama

 

Section II: Selective Records Survey of Alabama’s Sixty-Seven Counties

Chapter 8: Introduction to County Records

 

Appendix A: Alabama Military Discharge Papers

Appendix B: 1833 Alabama Slave Laws Codified

Appendix C: 1852 Alabama Slave Laws Codified

Appendix D: African American Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama

Appendix E: Freedmen’s Bureau: Alabama (organized by Shamele C. Jordon)

 

Acknowledgments

Index

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