The Chickasaw

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Title

The Chickasaw

Subject

African-American history

Description

The first African-Americans who lived in the Shoals were slaves of the Chickasaw tribe. When the Chickasaws from Alabama and Mississippi were removed from their homes in the 1830s, the census included 1156 slaves. Tom Melton, an Irishman who lived among the Chickasaws, most definitely had African-American slaves at his home site near present-day Rogersville.

Creator

Ashley Pentecost, University of North Alabama

Source

William McDonald, A Walk Through the Past. University of North Alabama archives

Publisher

Alabama cultural resource survey

Date

Late eighteenth-early nineteenth century