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Alabama Department of Archives and History presents a Book Talk
presented by Angela Pulley Hudson
In the years following the Treaty of Fort Jackson in 1814, emigration into Alabama and the
Creek Nation increased steadily. As roads were improved and steamboat navigation flourished, the whole nation seemed to be on the move. The "strangers" who began to pour into the former Creek territories included not only American settlers seeking a new start in the fertile lands of the Black Belt, but also thousands of slaves, forced migrants who traveled the same roads and waterways with far less optimism about the life that awaited them.
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