Excerpt from "Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800-1860" by J. Mills Thornton III.

This passage includes an excerpt of a letter from Daniel Pratt to Dixon Hall Lewis, written September 21, 1847. In the correspondence Pratt, an industrialist in Autauga County, Alabama, says that he considers himself "a permanent Citizen of this State"; he suggests that if other residents...

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