01/11/1861 AD seceded from
Despite strong resistance in the northern part of the state, Alabama seceded by a vote 61-39 of the the Alabama Secession Convention.
After the election of Abraham Lincoln from the anti-slavery Republican Party in 1860, plus the prior secession declarations of South Carolina, Mississippi, and Florida, Alabama delegates also voted to secede from the United States, in order to join and form a slave-holding Southern republic, mostly of the Cotton States.
In December 1860, Stephen F. Hale, Alabama's commissioner to Kentucky, wrote a letter to that state's governor about Alabama's justification for secession. In it, he voiced support for the Dred Scott decision, condemned the Republican Party for opposing slavery, and stated that the state's secession, which would perpetuate slavery, was the only way to prevent prospective African-American freedmen, whom Hale referred to as "half-civilized Africans" from waging a race war (noting the 1804 Haiti massacre).
Lattitude: 32.3616° N
Longitude: 86.2791° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
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