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Dupre’s presentation focuses on two periods of violence along Alabama's frontiers and how different reactions by Europeans, Americans, and Creeks illustrate the shift from a trading frontier to a settler frontier. In 1760, early
frontiersmen and Native Americans established an uneasy truce, but in 1813 the region spiraled into war as the newly formed American nation demanded more and more land for settlers. Dupre explores this riveting saga of the
forgotten struggles in Alabama’s frontier days.
Daniel S. Dupre is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and author of Transforming the Cotton Frontier: Madison County, Alabama, 1800-1840 and Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the
Old South. He received a B.A. in History from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, and a Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Brandeis University.
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