That its laws were fashioned to accommodate both becomes obvious when related through the experiences of Alabama's slaves. Alabama was a frontier state and from the beginning, its economy was built on cotton and slavery. This selection reveals a different aspect of the Alabama slavery experience, because Hughes was hired out by his master to work at the Confederate salt works during the Civil War. Also included is an excerpt from Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom, a memoir written by Louis Hughes. Blair, Publisher, continues its Real Voices, Real History(TM) series with selections from 46 of the 125 interviews now archived in the Library of Congress that were earmarked as interviews with Alabama slaves. More than 2,000 former slaves in 17 states were interviewed. From 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a part of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, hired writers, editors, and researchers to interview as many former slaves as they could find and document their lives during slavery.
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