Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South

Alabama endured warfare, slave trading, squatting, and speculating on its path to becoming America's 22nd state, and Daniel S. Dupre brings its captivating frontier history to life in Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South. Dupre's vivid narrative begins when Hernando de Soto first led hundreds of armed Europeans into the region during the fall of 1540. Although this early invasion was defeated, Spain, France, and England would each vie for control over the area's natural resources, struggling to conquer it with the same intensity and ferocity that the Native Americans showed in defending their homeland. Although early frontiersmen and Native Americans eventually established an uneasy truce, the region spiraled back into war in the nineteenth century, as the newly formed American nation demanded more and more land for settlers. Dupre captures the riveting saga of the forgotten struggles and savagery in Alabama's--and America's--frontier days.

Author: Daniel S. Dupre
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 01/03/2018
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780253027276
ISBN10: 0253027276
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- History | United States | Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- History | United States | Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

About the Author

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.