A Series of articles involving local African-Americans accused of crimes or victims of crimes, as reported by the Florence Journal. and Literary Index

The Florence Journal was founded ca. September or October of 1865 by Florence educator and editor Dr. David R. Lindsay (1821-1898), brother of future Alabama Governor Robert B. Lindsay. It was suppressed by Alabama's Reconstruction government in late 1867 for being too vocal in its opposition to Military Reconstruction. In early 1868 Isaac and Silas Barr (1832-1903), former editors of the Florence Gazette, began publishing the Literary Index with the old Journal's press. The Literary Index seems to only have published for at most a couple of years.

The Florence Journal was started up again in 1869 by Capt. Robert McFarland, Esq. (1836-1892) and T. Allen Jones. By February of 1873 the Florence Journal had bought out and merged with the Lauderdale Times, founded in April of 1871 by William J. Wood (1850-1917) and Isaac S. Barr (1832-1903), to become the Florence Times-Journal ed. by Wood and Barr.

This collection will be added to as more articles are discovered.]]> 1. 1865-10-04]]> 2. 1866-12-06]]> 3. 1868-08-12]]> 4. 1868-11-18]]> 5. 1869-01-28]]> 6. 1869-09-02]]> 7. 1870-02-24]]> 8. 1870-05-19]]> 9. 1870-08-25]]>