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Foley is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. The 2010 census lists the population of the city as 14,618. [2] Foley is a principal city of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metropolitan area , which includes all of Baldwin County.
African American family in Alabama. Black slaves arrived in present day Alabama during the late 18th and early 19th century in the Mississippi Territory. At the time of the 1800 Census there were 517 black people in the Alabama portion of the Mississippi Territory, with 494 slaves and 23 free blacks.
The Black Belt is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama. The term originally referred to the region's rich, black soil, [1] much of it in the soil order Vertisols. The term took on an additional meaning in the 19th century, when the region was developed for cotton plantation agriculture, in which the workers were enslaved African Americans.
The U.S. federal government designates Baldwin County as the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metropolitan statistical area. It is the largest county in Alabama by area and is located on the eastern side of Mobile Bay. Part of its western border with Mobile County is formed by the Spanish River, a brackish distributary river.
The African slave trade was first brought to Alabama when the region was part of the French Louisiana Colony. [1] During the colonial era, Indian slavery in Alabama soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery in large part due to the rapid growth of the cotton industry. [2] [3]
The history of African Americans in the U.S. Civil War is marked by 186,097 (7,122 officers, 178,975 enlisted) African-American men, comprising 163 units, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy. Both free African Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight.
The Poarch Band of Creek Indians opened the Park at OWA, an amusement park in Foley, Alabama, on July 20, 2017. The 520-acre (2.1 km 2) site was a joint venture between the City of Foley and the Foley Sports Tourism Complex, developed in conjunction with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians as part of a city-wide sports tourism push.
M. Miles College (2 C, 1 P) African-American history in Mobile, Alabama (1 C, 7 P) African-American history in Montgomery, Alabama (18 P) Montgomery bus boycott (1 C, 23 P)