This book is Willie Ruff's autobiography, and describes his early life in Sheffield, Alabama, his education at Yale University, and his teaching career at Yale.]]> 1991]]> This is a link to an article about the Rapier family of Florence, Alabama.]]> https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/L_Schweninger_Slave_1975.pdf]]> 1975]]> This is an account of Peter Still, who purchased his freedom from slavery in Tuscumbia. ]]> http://www.algw.org/colbert/aa-struggle.htm]]> 1978]]> This is an article about African American religion, with an emphasis on the Shoals area.]]> http://www.algw.org/colbert/aa-religion.htm]]> 1978]]> Labor Movement, 1869-1872"]]> This is a link to an article about James Rapier and his involvement in the Negro Labor Movement.]]> https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/L_Schweninger_James_1975.pdf]]> 1975]]> This is a link to an account of the escape of John Burtwell, who was a slave of steamboat captain and Florence, Alabama resident John Trumball Burtwell.]]> https://hepl.lib.in.us/self-emancipation-john-burtwell/]]> This is a link to a thesis written by Eric Blake McLendon that concerns religion during slavery in north Alabama.]]> https://etd.auburn.edu/bitstream/handle/10415/596/MCLENDON_ERIC_1.pdf?sequence=1]]> 2006-12-15]]> This is an article about slavery in the Shoals area.]]> http://www.algw.org/colbert/aa-aspectsofslavery.htm]]> 1974]]> This is a link to an online version of Peter Still's account of his struggle to gain his freedom. ]]> http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/pickard/pickard.html]]> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]> 1856; electronic version 1999]]> Black Catholics in the United States]]> Florence historian Lee Freeman: "A nice overview of black Catholics in the US from Colonial times to the present. Contains information on the antebellum black Catholic population of Mobile. In the mid-1940s Florence African-American businesswoman Bessie McAlister Foster (1882-1963) converted from Methodism to Catholicism and was instrumental in helping to establish Blessed Martin De Porres Negro Mission, which was pastored by Rev. Fr. Isidore Fussnecker, OSB of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Florence."
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