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Government, Law and Politics

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Captain Slick collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0274
Overview Numerous legal papers pertaining to the slander case of John Berry versus James Latham, in Jackson and Madison Counties, Alabama, 1830-34, and that of Alanson Huff versus Cowart et al., Madison County, 1831-1833. These appear to have been collected by James W. Bragg for a paper delivered to the Alabama Historical Association in 1957. A photocopy of Bragg's paper, "Captain Slick, Arbiter of Early Alabama Morals," and another by Jack K. Williams, "Crime and Punishment in Alabama, 1819-1940" are...
Dates: 1830-1834
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / Captain Slick collection

C. J. Coley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0341
Abstract Letters and two versions of a paper titled "Tallapoosa and Elmore Counties Litigants," read before the Alabama Historical Association, 26 April 1963, concerning a dispute over division of tax revenues generated by hydroelectric power from damming the Tallapoosa River.
Dates: 1963
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / C. J. Coley papers