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Title: The Federal Road Through Georgia, the Creek Nation, and Alabama, 1806-1836 by Henry Deleon, Jr. Southerland, Jerry Elijah Brown ISBN: 0-8173-0518-1 Publisher: University of Alabama Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: THE FEDERAL ROAD
Comment: Most enlightening. I was able to track my ancestors as they traveled thru Georgia and Alabama. With the aid of a good map, one can pinpoint their exact route. Highly recommend for anyone doing research on their family that settled in Georgia or Alabama.
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly Valuable
Comment: Enlarged beyond its earlier incarnation as an article in "The Alabama Review", this work has emerged as a highly valuable resource for readers and researchers of early Alabama history. Utilizing maps and exhaustive primary and secondary sources, the authors present evidence of the profound impact of the Federal Road upon the Alabama in its formative years. Here, the reader will learn that antebellum Alabama was far from a unified state, but rather a politically polarized collection of sectional counties, interspersed with tribal lands of the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw. North Alabama, with a citizenry constituted largely of emigres of Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina, held political power from Alabama's Territorial period (1817-1818) and through early statehood (1819-1840). Entering Alabama at a point roughly near present-day Columbus, Georgia/Phenix City, Alabama, and proceeding southwesterly to New Orleans, the Federal Road accomodated the massive influx of settlers emanating from Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia. This book reveals how the surge in America's westward expansion affected the present-day formation of Alabama. With pent-up demand for land, and a sympathetic Andrew Jackson in the White House, the Federal Road became the venue through which the white combatants prevailed in the Creek War of 1836-37. The resultant final removal of Creek and Cherokee tribes to Oklahoma, caused such a rush of new settlers into South and Central Alabama that Alabama's political structure underwent a drastic and lasting transformation. The shift in legislative power to South Alabama and, particularly, the Black Belt of Central Alabama, resulted in the 1846 removal of the state capitol from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery. The rise of the "Bourbon Democrats" of this region was to shape the landscape of Alabama politics for over 140 years thereafter. The authors, through scholarly, annotated research, offer the reader an opportunity to attain a thorough understanding of the significance of the Federal Road as the single most important element in the formation of Alabama's geography, government, economy and sociology. This reviewer highly recommends this book as not only valuable, but essential for anyone seeking to attain a thorough understanding of Alabama history.
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Title: The Very Worst Road: Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847 by Jeffrey C. Benton, Historic Chattahoochee Commission ISBN: 0945477139 Publisher: Historic Chattahoochee Commission Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $55.01 |
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Title: McIntosh and Weatherford, Creek Indian Leaders by Benjamin W., Jr. Griffith ISBN: 0817309144 Publisher: University of Alabama Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama by George Cary Eggleston ISBN: 1565544587 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders: On the Old Southwest Frontier 1716-1815 by Amos, J. Wright, Amos J. Wright ISBN: 1588380068 Publisher: NewSouth Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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