Category
page 1Farmers from Alabama

Bob Riley
American politician
James G. Birney
American politician (1792-1857)

Cudjoe Lewis
one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Charles Hays
American politician and Confederate Army officer (1834-1879)
Richard C. Byrd
American politician (1805-1854)
Redoshi
Redoshi ( 1848 – 1937) was a West African woman who was enslaved and smuggled to the U.S. state of Alabama as a girl in 1860. Until a later surviving claimant, Matilda McCrear, was announced in 2020, she was considered to have been the last surviving victim of the transatlantic slave trade. Taken captive in warfare at age 12 by the West African kingdom of Dahomey, she was sold to Americans and transported by ship to the United States in violation of U.S. law. She was sold again and enslaved on the upcountry plantation of the Washington M. Smith family in Dallas County, Alabama, where her
LeRoy Pope
American judge