Hi--just a reminder about the TENNESSEE/ALABAMA chat tonight at:
http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm

9:00 pm Eastern
8:00 pm Central
7:00 pm Mountain
6:00 pm Pacific

Remember--the chat room only holds 50, so come early!  Stay as late as you
like.  I hope to stop in--but am out of town.

If you need help with instructions for the chat room, please email me
privately.
The Southern States schedule is listed on the chat page at my site.

Don't miss the all the Alabama Genealogy links at:
http://huntsville.about.com/msubgenealogy1.htm


Jean Brandau
About.com guide to Huntsville AL
http://huntsville.about.com
email:  huntsville.guide@...

Just a reminder that FLORIDA is the topic in tonight's chat:
http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm

9 pm Eastern, 8 pm Central, 7 pm Mountain, 6 pm Pacific

Enjoy!

Jean Brandau
About.com guide to Huntsville AL
http://huntsville.about.com
email:  huntsville.guide@...

Hi--we're in the chatroom now if you're online.  Talking about Florida &
Alabama genealogy.

Tomorrow is North & South Carolina day starting at 4 pm Eastern and going to
midnight!

Jean Brandau
About.com guide to Huntsville AL
http://huntsville.about.com
email:  huntsville.guide@...

Saturday is North & South Carolina Chats:
4-12 pm Eastern
3-11 pm Central
2-10 pm Mountain
1-10 pm Pacific

http://huntsville.about.com/msubgenealogy1.htm

Spread the word!

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Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 9:27 AM
Subject: [alabamahistory] NORTH & SOUTH CAROLINA Chats


>From: "Jean Brandau" <huntsville2@...>
>
>Saturday is North & South Carolina Chats:
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>
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I have ancestors from Alabama c. the mid 1800's. One of them was exempt from the
Civil War because he was a Justice of the Peace. I am trying to locate the
records he kept.  I would also like to view these records.  He was a member of
the Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church. Does anyone know where the state keeps
the records of mid 1800's J.'s of P.?  His name was William D. Thompson,
Tallapoosa County, AL. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Respectfully,

Lisa Anne (Thompson) McCratic

fyi..aj wright // alabamahistory listowner

-----Original Message-----
From: H-NET List for Southern History [mailto:H-SOUTH@...] On
Behalf Of David Herr
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:08 AM
To: H-SOUTH@...
Subject: H-NET review: Kenzer on Rogers, _Confederate Home Front_


Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 11:12:09 -0500
From: H-CIVWAR@...
Subject: H-NET review: Kenzer on Rogers, _Confederate Home Front_

X-Post from H-CivWar

William Warren Rogers, Jr. _Confederate Home Front:
Montgomery During the Civil War_. Tuscaloosa, Alabama:
The University of Alabama Press, 1999. xiv + 208 pp.
Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8173-0962-4.
Reviewed for H-CivWar by Robert C. Kenzer,
<rkenzer@...>, Department of History,
University of Richmond
The First Confederate Capital Faces the Civil War
The initial question a reader asks about a book on
Montgomery, Alabama, during the Civil War is whether the
author determines if it was wise for the Confederate
government to abandon this community of 9,000 inhabitants
and move to Richmond, Virginia, a city nearly four times
larger but located far closer to the potential war front.
Not only does William Warren Rogers Jr. directly answer
this question; he also provides an excellent portrait
of the urban Confederate home front.
The book generally is arranged chronologically with Rogers
first describing the community on the eve of the war and
then tracing its brief history as the Confederate capital.
Once the capital is relocated to Richmond, Rogers follows
a largely topical format covering such issues as how
Montgomery functioned during the war as a military post,
the problems of labor, and the administration of the city.
It concludes with the formal surrender of the city on
April 12, 1865.
Rogers describes the decision to remove the Southern
capital as one in which Montgomerians "had no bearing"
(p. 44). He concedes, however, that the Confederate
"Congress was generally guided by sincere and legitimate
differences rather than by self-serving considerations"
in reaching its decision (p. 44). In "combination"
Montgomery's "high prices, the mosquitoes, the heat, or
constraints of space" all shaped the decision to relocate
(p. 45). Although Rogers never directly evaluates the
wisdom of the decision in terms of the wider war effort,
he makes it clear that once the capital was removed,
Montgomery did not prove to be the safer location that
proponents of keeping the capital in Alabama had argued.
Indeed, in the spring of 1862, like Richmond, northern
Alabama faced invasion. The difference, however, was
that Montgomerians were far less militarily prepared:
"Montgomery did not have a single artillery piece in
place, had few men able to offer resistance, and had
failed to anticipate the enemy's arrival apart from
discussing the problems presented by some cotton bales"
(p. 118). Preparations did not improve much in 1863
and by the summer of 1864, as General William Sherman's
forces were encircling Atlanta, a Union offensive
penetrated into eastern Alabama under the command of
General Lovell Rousseau. By July 15th, "anxiety
reached a new level" as "the specter of marauding
Yankee cavalrymen galloping down city street . . . now
began to seem inevitable" in Montgomery (p. 122). It
was only "in the wake of the threat posed by Rousseau,"
according to Rogers, that Montgomery began to construct
fortifications, largely with the aid of slave labor
(p. 124).
While Montgomery would hold off the external threat of
Union forces until the end of the war, Rogers ably uses
the Southern Claims Commission records to prove that the
community also faced a far less visible internal threat.
Montgomery Unionists, who "transcended class lines" and
were largely composed of men of "northern backgrounds,"
Rogers finds, "defied the local consensus but not openly"
(pp. 105-6). Indeed, the Unionist Daniel Starr, a
Connecticut native who had lived in Montgomery throughout
the 1850s, paid the ultimate price when, as the result of
being in an inebriated condition, he revealed his true
allegiance. After holding him in jail for a brief period,
"unknown parties seized and lynched" Starr (p. 112).
Rogers' disclosure of the "unspoken and carefully guarded
covenant" of Montgomery Unionists alone makes this book
worth reading (p. 115).
Far too often reviewers criticize books essentially because
they feel that the author did not write the book they would
have written. Hence, it should be stated that this clearly
is not the book this reviewer would have written. There
are too many points where Rogers could have provided more
specific information, particularly of a quantitative
nature. For example, when discussing labor in wartime
Montgomery, he simply notes, "Most whites did not own
slaves" (p. 66). Well, this fact was not unique to
Montgomery; surely the slave and free schedules of the 1860
manuscript census reveal a fuller picture of the city's
system of slaveholding as well as other socio-economic
measurements.
However, Rogers' goal is not to provide statistical
portraits. Instead, his compelling narrative of how white
and black Montgomerians faced the conflict transcends a
narrow scholarly audience and reaches out to many more
general Civil War readers. This achievement deserves
commendation.

Copyright (c) 2000 by H-Net, all rights reserved. This
work may be copied for non-profit educational use if
proper credit is given to the author and the list.
For other permission, please contact<h-net@...>.
[The book review editor for H-CivWar is Robert F. Pace
<pacer@...>].

fyi..aj wright

-----Original Message-----
From: Network of Alabama Academic Libraries Discussion List
[mailto:NAAL-L@...] On Behalf Of smedina@...
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 9:00 AM
To: NAAL-L@...
Subject: New Book - Alabamiana: The Reins of Power


This book recently came to my attention, and I thought you might be
interested in it for your Alabamian collections.  Mr. McCarty was born in
Wilcox County and now lives in Mobile.  I don't know Sentry Press, and
feared they might have a small printing that would become OP too soon!

Sue Medina
---------------------- Forwarded by Sue O Medina/ACHE on 02/14/2000 09:54
AM ---------------------------

>The Reins of Power: Racial Change and Challenge in a Southern County
>by Clinton McCarty published by Sentry Press, 424 East Call Street,
>Tallahassee, FL 32301 in 1999.  ISBN 1-889574-06-6
>
>Time has largely bypassed rural and isolated Wilcox County, in
southwestern Alabama.  This is Black Belt country, whose dark, rich soil
made possible King Cotton's fabled reign.  An antebellum aura survives here
to a remarkable degree.
>
>Wilcox is a fascinating repository of Deep South history, with its
conflicting images of romanticism and repression.  Because limited physical
change has meant prosperity denied, it has become virtually the poor
Southern county of record.  It also serves as a metaphor for Southern
counties where majority African-Americans have wrested the reins of power
from minority whites who held them for so long.  Small wonder that Wilcox's
mystique and its problems continue to attract sociologists, television
producers, magazine writers, and reporters from the national press.
>
>After recounting the county's early history to set the stage for what was
to come, Clinton McCarty, a journalist whose own roots are in Wilcox, moves
into the 1960s and beyond, detailing the county's extended public school
desegregation battle and its painful transition from white to black
political control. He then takes a closer look at how blacks have done in
their stewardship and considers Wilcox's prospects in the new millennium.
>

fyi...aj wright

-----Original Message-----
From: H-NET List for Southern History [mailto:H-SOUTH@...] On
Behalf Of David Herr
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 3:45 PM
To: H-SOUTH@...
Subject: H-South Announces a New Review Editor


Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:31:00 -0600
From: Ian Binnington <binningt@...>
Subject: H-South Announces a New Review Editor


Dear H-Southers,
H-South is proud to announce that we have appointed a Review Editor to
oversee the process of book reviews for the list. H-Net's database suggests
that H-South has only ever commissioned six scholarly reviews, and in order
to raise the level of academic discourse on the list, we feel that
situation should change. The new editor is Ian Binnington, of the History
Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(mailto:binningt@...)

Just as with any reputable academic journal, it is H-Net's editorial policy
that review editors invite qualified and impartial scholars to write
reviews. H-Net networks, like print journals, can post general appeals for
individuals interested in reviewing for the network, but we avoid posting
notices asking for volunteers to review individual books. Likewise,
unsolicited reviews are also discouraged.

If you are interested in reviewing for H-South and have not recently sent a
message to the editors to that effect, please send an off-line message to
the review editor [please do not post this information to the list itself,
such messages will be rejected by the editors]. Include your name,
institutional affiliation, a short biography including notable publications
and research interests, and a list of fields within Southern history you
feel competent to review in. These messages will be compiled into a
database and I will begin the process of matching books with reviewers.

I look forward to a long and productive editorial association with H-South.
Best Regards
Ian Binnington
H-South Review Editor
Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
mailto:binningt@...

______________________________________
David Herr
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fyi,,,aj wright

-----Original Message-----
From: H-Net DISCUSSION LIST FOR LOCAL AND STATE HISTORY
[mailto:H-LOCAL@...] On Behalf Of Tom Costa
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 7:21 AM
To: H-LOCAL@...
Subject: ANN: New Collection in American Memory


Good morning,

The following announces a new addition to the American Memory online
collections at the Library of Congress. Please accept our apologies for
any duplicate postings.

     From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection,
1824-1909

Pamphlets documenting the African-American experience from slavery to
the early twentieth century are the most recent addition to the American

Memory historical collections.  From Slavery to Freedom: The
African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 contains 397 pamphlets
written by African Americans and others on a variety of subjects
relating to African-American history, including slavery, African
colonization, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. The materials range from

personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and
legislative speeches.  Authors include Lydia Maria Child, Alexander
Crummell, Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church
Terrell, and Booker T. Washington.

     From Slavery to Freedom offers page images of each pamphlet as well
as
fully searchable transcribed texts and browse lists organized by author,

title, and subject.  A special presentation highlights approximately
twenty collection titles.  These include The Life of James Mars, a
first-person account of slave life in Connecticut; The Influential
Appeal to the Christian Women of the South by abolitionist Angelina
Emily Grimki; a turn-of-the-century voting manual for African-American
men; and a speech by Booker T. Washington advocating support for
initiatives to educate African Americans.

     Although they do not offer a comprehensive history of
African-American
life, these pamphlets provide insight into the ideas and events of their

day in a historically important physical format that often fails to
survive the test of time.  Those interested in publishing will enjoy the

variety of papers, type faces, and printing methods used to produce
these materials.

     The African American Pamphlet Collection was accessioned in 1990-91
from
a miscellaneous pamphlet collection in the Library's Rare Book and
Special Collections Division.  The pamphlets were singled out for their
significance to African-American history and recataloged to enhance
access.  The collection complements the division's Daniel A.P. Murray
Pamphlet Collection, which is also a part of American Memory (URL:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/).

     The online presentation of the African American Pamphlet Collection
was
made possible by a major gift from the Citicorp Foundation, and is part
of a five-year effort to add rare and unique items from the Library's
vast African-American collections to the National Digital Library.

     From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection,
1824-1909 can be found at the following URL:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/

Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll@...

--
Danna C. Bell-Russel
National Digital Library Learning Center
202-707-4159
dbell@...

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To: onelist_moderators@onelist.com <mailto:onelist_moderators@onelist.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 12:23 AM
Subject: [onelist_moderators] Scheduled Maintenance

From: admin@onelist.com <mailto:admin@onelist.com>

Dear ONElist Moderators

The ONElist site will be off-line from 9am until 3pm Pacific Standard Time
on Saturday 19th February, 2000 for scheduled maintenance.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you or your subscribers.
Please notify your subscribers of this scheduled downtime.

Mail will not be delivered during this time.  Any mail posted to a list
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fyi..aj wright

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:38:21 -0500
From: H-NET Announcements Editor <announce@...>
Subject: ANN: NEH Fellowships

  NEH Fellowships, 2001-2002

  Deadline:  May 1, 2000

  The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the competition for
  Fellowships for 2001-2002.  These Fellowships provide opportunities for
  individuals to pursue advanced work in the humanities.  Applicants may be
  faculty or staff members of colleges or universities or of primary or
  secondary schools.  Scholars and writers working independently, in
  institutions such as museums, libraries, and historical associations, or
  in institutions with no connection to the humanities also are eligible to
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  NEH Fellowships support a variety of activities.  Projects may contribute
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  NEW THIS YEAR:  The 2001-2002 guidelines include two important Fellowships
  program changes:
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  concurrently with the NEH Fellowship.
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  applicants during the evaluation process.

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Here are the remaining 3 days to the chat schedule for Alabama ancestors
migrating to the following states:

2/18--Friday--LOUISIANA
2/19--Saturday--KENTUCKY
2/20--Sunday--MISSOURI
2/21--Monday--ALABAMA (normal schedule)

Start time is 9:00 p.m. Eastern; 8:00 p.m. Central:
http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm

Please email me if you need instructions on how to chat.  I'm out of town
but will get back to you ASAP.

Jean Brandau
About.com guide to Huntsville AL
http://huntsville.about.com
email:  huntsville.guide@...

Hi--if you're online, the chatroom is open until 11 pm Eastern, 10 pm
Central, 8 pm Pacific tonight.
http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm

Join us!

Jean Brandau
About.com guide to Huntsville AL
http://huntsville.about.com
email:  huntsville.guide@...

Please join us Monday & Thursday nights for an evening of history,
genealogy, and surname exchange for the entire state of Alabama:
http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm

All are welcome to come:
10-12 pm Eastern
9-11 pm Central
8-10 pm Mountain
7-9 pm Pacific

If you've never "chatted" and need instructions, please feel free to email
me privately.

Jean Brandau
About.com guide to Huntsville AL
http://huntsville.about.com
email:  huntsville.guide@...

This discussion list has been based at the OneList service since it was
founded in September 1998. Several months ago OneList announced a merger
with eGroups, another vendor of free discussion list services. In the past
few days results of that merger are beginning to appear, which you will
notice if you have visited the OneList site at
http://www.onelist.com/ recently. As a result of this upgrade, even more
features are available to our mailing list.

Any member of this list can go to
http://www.onelist.com/group/alabamahistory and see the services available.
Members can upload files to a file area for any other member of the list to
download. There is an area called "Links" where members can post favorite
Alabama history/culture/etc-related links that we all can explore. There are
provisions for a group calendar [maybe for Alabama history/cultural
events?], polls/surveys, and even a real-time chat room.

Many of the changes at OneList are further explained in the message below. I
would urge all members of this discussion list to explore what's available
to us and let's begin discussion on how best to use these services!

--aj wright // alabamahistory listowner // anesuab@...


>   Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 05:13:20 -0000
>   From: admin@onelist.com
>Subject: The ONElist_Moderators Update - February 19, 2000
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Greetings,

Again I am picking the brains of my Alabama friends for some information.
I am trying to find the lyrics to the traditional chuch hynm "I'll Fly
Away."  I don't know much about which southern religions use it most.....or
it's origin....or anything.  So if anyone can help me out with this query,
that would be great.

Thanks.
Kyes Stevens


Kyes Stevens
Women's History/Poetry
Sarah Lawrence College

I'll Fly Away!

Some glad morning when this life is o'er, I'll fly away,
To a home on God's celestial shore, I'll fly away.
I'll fly away, Oh glory, I'll fly away,
When I die, Hallelujah bye and bye, I'll fly away.

Just a few more weary days and then, I'll fly away,
To a home where joy shall never end, I'll fly away.

When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more,
And the morning breaks eternal bright and fair,
When the saved of earth shall gather on that bright eternal shore,
When the roll is called up yonder I'll be there.

When the roll is called up yonder,
When the roll is called up yonder,
When the roll is called up yonder,
When the roll is called up yonder I'll be there.

Let us labor for the Master from the dawn 'till set of sun,
Let us talk of all His wondrous love and care,
When the roll is called up yonder I'll be there.
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> Greetings,
>
> Again I am picking the brains of my Alabama friends for some information.
> I am trying to find the lyrics to the traditional chuch hynm "I'll Fly
> Away."  I don't know much about which southern religions use it
> most.....or
> it's origin....or anything.  So if anyone can help me out with this query,
> that would be great.
>
> Thanks.
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This is the original version the other one you have is a medolie of other
songs attached.

1.Some glad morning when this life is o'er I'll fly away; To a home on God's
Celestial shore, Chorus; I'll fly away, away. O glory, I'll fly away; When I
die Hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away.

2. When the shadows of this life have grown, I'll fly away; Like a bird from
prison bars has flown,  Chorus:

3. Just a few more weary days and then, I'll fly away; To a land where joys
shall never end,  Chorus:
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Subject: [alabamahistory] hymn


>From: Kyes Stevens <kstevens@...>
>
>Greetings,
>
>Again I am picking the brains of my Alabama friends for some information.
>I am trying to find the lyrics to the traditional chuch hynm "I'll Fly
>Away."  I don't know much about which southern religions use it most.....or
>it's origin....or anything.  So if anyone can help me out with this query,
>that would be great.
>
>Thanks.
>Kyes Stevens
>
>
>Kyes Stevens
>Women's History/Poetry
>Sarah Lawrence College
>
>
>
>
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Sorry neglected to say the song  I'll fly away was written by Albert E.
Brumley, copyright 1932 in "Wonderful Message" Hartford Music Co., owner
Hope this helps,  rose
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Subject: [alabamahistory] hymn


>From: Kyes Stevens <kstevens@...>
>
>Greetings,
>
>Again I am picking the brains of my Alabama friends for some information.
>I am trying to find the lyrics to the traditional chuch hynm "I'll Fly
>Away."  I don't know much about which southern religions use it most.....or
>it's origin....or anything.  So if anyone can help me out with this query,
>that would be great.
>
>Thanks.
>Kyes Stevens
>
>
>Kyes Stevens
>Women's History/Poetry
>Sarah Lawrence College
>
>
>
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Dear Kyes: I don't have the words to "I'll Fly Away" or know much about
the hymn, but I will share this: My husband's uncle died earlier this
month at 90 and was buried in a little cemetery in Sevier County,
Arkansas. About 250 persons came out to the hilltop grave on a cold,
windy Saturday morning to pay their final respects. He was a lifelong
member of the Church of Christ and most of the folks there were part of
his church family. However, his wife's children, Methodists, arranged
for a local Methodist and friend of Uncle Bennie to sing "I'll Fly
Away," Uncle Bennie's favorite hymn, during the service. He stood at the
back of the crowd and sang with only his adult daughter strumming on a
guitar for accompaniment. It was eerily beautiful.

The Church of Christ congregation sang the hymn again as the final hymn
during its service the next morning--that time with no accompaniment at
all, which is the custom in that church.

Elizabeth F. Shores
Little Rock

Re.: "I'll Fly Away

         I'm not sure which "I'll Fly Away you are looking for, but there is
one with these lyrics as the first verse or chorys:


             I'll fly away, fly away Oh Jordan
             I'll fly away, fly away oh Lord
             When I die halieluya (sp?) by and by,
             I'll fly away.

         This way used extensively in the Southern Baptist Church in Plateau
Alabama when I was a child there.  If you can find a Broadman Hymnal from the
1950s, the song is in there.

                 Grreg Henry gbhlaw @aol.com

Hello All:

         I am trying to find any infromation about Magazine Point, Alabama
(may now be known as Magazine, Alabama or Africatown, Alabama).  Magazine
Point  was included, I believe, in the town of Plateau and may now be
included in the town of Prichard.  I am looking for information about the old
graveyard and the old church there (are either still there?) and also to find
out if a Hattie Harris or an Ed Harris are buried there and if any of that
family is still around.

     Any response will be appreciated.

             Greg Henry

Primitive Baptist sing the song rather often--

Some glad morning when this life is o'er, I'll fly away, I'll fly away,
To that home on that celestial shore, I'll fly away, I'll fly away.

Chorus:
I'll fly away, oh glory, I'll fly away
when I die, Hallelujah bye and bye, I'll fly away

This is as much of the song as I remember, and I may not have the lyrics
exactly right!
Grace

Kyes Stevens wrote:

> From: Kyes Stevens <kstevens@...>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Again I am picking the brains of my Alabama friends for some information.
> I am trying to find the lyrics to the traditional chuch hynm "I'll Fly
> Away."  I don't know much about which southern religions use it most.....or
> it's origin....or anything.  So if anyone can help me out with this query,
> that would be great.
>
> Thanks.
> Kyes Stevens
>
> Kyes Stevens
> Women's History/Poetry
> Sarah Lawrence College
>
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There are a number of Africatown descendants who have produced some
vanity publications and a festival.  Most live in the area of Plateau,
next to Pritchard and are descended from the passengers of the last
slave ship to enter Alabama.

Some of the individuals who have been involved in these heritage
activities include Henry Williams, Martha Davis, Mary Pogue, Lorna Gail
Woods and Israel Lewis.  Mr. Lewis' phone number is 334-456-1033.
Perhaps he can help.

Joey Brackner
Alabama State Council on the Arts
201 Monroe St.
Montgomery, AL  36104
joey@...
334-242-4076, x-225
FAX 334-240-3269
www.arts.state.al.us <http://www.arts.state.al.us>



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To: alabamahistory@onelist.com
Subject: [alabamahistory] Magazine Point


From: gbhlaw@...

Hello All:

         I am trying to find any infromation about Magazine Point,
Alabama
(may now be known as Magazine, Alabama or Africatown, Alabama).
Magazine
Point  was included, I believe, in the town of Plateau and may now be
included in the town of Prichard.  I am looking for information about
the old
graveyard and the old church there (are either still there?) and also to
find
out if a Hattie Harris or an Ed Harris are buried there and if any of
that
family is still around.

     Any response will be appreciated.

             Greg Henry

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