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Albert James Pickett
1810–1858
Best remembered as Alabama’s first historian, he turned years of research and correspondence into a landmark two-volume history of the state. His work helped preserve early accounts of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi for later readers.
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Eight days in New-Orleans in February, 1847
by Albert James Pickett
About the author
Born in Anson County, North Carolina, on August 13, 1810, he moved with his family to Alabama in 1818. He became a planter and lawyer in Autauga County and built a reputation as a careful researcher and writer.
His best-known work is the two-volume History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period, published in 1851. Because of that book, he is widely remembered as Alabama’s first historian, and his research drew on extensive correspondence and document gathering.
He died in Montgomery, Alabama, on October 28, 1858. Even so, his history remained an important early source for readers interested in the people, events, and culture of the American South.