ALABAMA: Click this link to see all slave labor sites in the state.
- Statehood: 1819; some counties were established before Alabama became a state
- COUNTIES: Click one of the counties below to see all plantations/ workplaces in that county.
County | Year Est. | Details |
Autauga | 1818 | Formed from Montgomery County |
Baldwin | 1809 | Formed from Washington and Florida Counties |
Barbour | 1832 | Formed from Pike County and lands of the Creek Indians |
Bibb | 1818 | Formed from Cahawba County |
Blount | 1818 | Formed from lands of the Creek Indians |
Butler | 1819 | Formed from Monroe and Conecuh Counties |
Burke | 1777 | Formed from St. George Parish |
Calhoun | 1832 | Formed from lands of the Creek Indians; Originally Benton County |
Chambers | 1832 | Formed from lands of the Creek Indians |
Cherokee | 1836 | Formed from lands of the Cherokee Indians |
Choctaw | 1847 | Formed from Sumter and Washington Counties |
Clarke | 1812 | Formed from the Mississippi Territory |
Coffee | 1841 | Formed from Dale County |
Conecuh | 1818 | Formed from Monroe County |
Coosa | 1832 | Formed from lands of the Creek Indians |
Covington | 1821 | Formed from Alabama; renamed Jones County, temporarily |
Dale | 1824 | Formed from Covington and Henry Counties |
Dallas | 1814 | Formed from lands of the Creek Indians |
De Kalb | 1836 | Formed from lands of the Creek Indians |
Fayette | 1824 | Formed from Tuscaloosa and Marion Counties |
Franklin | 1818 | Formed from lands of the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians |
Greene | 1819 | Formed from Marengo and Tuscaloosa Counties |
Henry | 1819 | Formed from Conecuh County |
Jackson | 1819 | Formed from lands of the Cherokee Indians |
Jefferson | 1819 | Formed from Blount County |
Lauderdale | 1818 | Formed from lands of the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians |
Lawrence | 1818 | Formed from lands of the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians |
Limestone | 1818 | Formed from lands of the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians |
Lowndes | 1830 | Formed from Butler, Dallas and Montgomery Counties |
Macon | 1832 | Formed from lands of the Creek Indians |
Madison | 1808 | Formed from lands of the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians |
Marengo | 1818 | Formed from lands of the Choctaw Indians |
Marion | 1818 | Formed from Tuscaloosa County |
Marshall | 1836 | Formed from Blount and Jackson Counties and lands of the Cherokee Indians |
Mobile | 1813 | Formed from West Florida |
Monroe | 1815 | Formed from Washington County and lands of the Creek Indians |
Montgomery | 1816 | Formed from Monroe County |
Morgan | 1818 | Formed from lands of the Cherokee Indians |
Perry | 1819 | Formed from Montgomery County |
Pickens | 1819 | Formed from Tuscaloosa County |
Pike | 1821 | Formed from Henry and Montgomery Counties |
Randolph | 1832 | Formed from lands of the Creek Indians |
Russell | 1832 | Formed from lands of the Creek Indians |
Saint Clair | 1818 | Formed from Shelby County |
Shelby | 1818 | Formed from Montgomery County |
Sumter | 1832 | Formed from lands of the Choctaw Indians |
Talladega | 1832 | Formed from lands of the Creek Indians |
Tallapoosa | 1832 | Formed from lands of the Creek Indians |
Tuscaloosa | 1818 | Formed from lands of the Cherokee and Choctaw Indians |
Walker | 1824 | Formed from Marion and Tuscaloosa Counties |
Wilcox | 1819 | Formed from Monroe and Dallas Counties |
Winston | 1850 | Formed from Walker County |