This Southern Metropolis: Life in Antebellum Mobile

by Mike Bunn

Based on visitor descriptions of antebellum Mobile, Alabama's physical and social environment, this book captures a place and time that is particular to Gulf Coast history. Mobile's foundational era is a period in which the city transformed from a struggling colonial outpost into one of the nation's most significant economic powerhouses, largely owing to the cotton trade and the labor of enslaved people. On the eve of the Civil War, the Mobile...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588385248
• ISBN13: 9781588385246
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 232 Pages