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November, 1819 AD (search for this): entry alabama
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Alabama.
The soil of this State was first trodden by Europeans in 1540.
These were the followers of De Soto (q. v.). In 1702, Bienville.
the French governor of Louisiana, entered Mobile Bay, and built a fort and trading-house at the mouth of Dog River.
In 1711 the French founded Mobile, and there a colony prospered for a while.
Negro
State seal of Alabama. slaves were first brought into this colony by three French ships of war in 1721.
By the treaty of 1763 this region was transferred by France to Great Britain. Alabama formed a portion of the State of Georgia, but in 1798 the country now included in the States of Alabama and Mississippi was organized as a Territory called Mississippi.
After the Creeks disappeared the region of Alabama was rapidly settled by white people, and in 1819 it entered the Union as a State.
The slave population increased more rapidly than the white.
In the Democratic National Convention that was held at Charleston in 1860 the delegates of Alaba
January 4th, 1861 AD (search for this): entry alabama
November, 1845 AD (search for this): entry alabama
1819 AD (search for this): entry alabama
November, 1882 AD (search for this): entry alabama
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1826 AD (search for this): entry alabama