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Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
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- Among them was Cudjoe Lewis, who in the 1920s became the last survivor of the slave trade.
- The last slaves to enter the United States from the African trade were brought to Mobile on the slave ship Clotilda.
- Mobile slaveholders owned relatively few slaves compared to planters in the upland plantation areas, but many households had domestic slaves, and many other slaves worked on the waterfront and on riverboats.
- With the economy so focused on one crop, Mobile's fortunes were always tied to those of cotton, and the city weathered many financial crises.
- The exports of cotton grew in proportion to the amounts being produced in the Black Belt; by 1840 Mobile was second only to New Orleans in cotton exports in the nation.
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- The waterfront was developed with wharves, terminal facilities, and fireproof brick warehouses.
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- This was cut short in part by the Panic of 1837 and yellow fever epidemics.
- The prosperity stimulated a building boom that was underway by the mid-1830s, with the building of some of the most elaborate structures the city had seen up to that point.
- Mobile was the slave-trading center of the state until the 1850s, when it was surpassed by Montgomery.
- by 1850 10% of its population was from New York City, which was deeply involved in the cotton industry.
- The city's booming businesses attracted merchants from the North;
- There were many businesses in the city related to the slave trade – people to make clothes, food, and supplies for the slave traders and their wards.
- Many slaves were transported by ship in the coastwise slave trade from the Upper South.
- From the 1830s onward, Mobile expanded into a city of commerce with a primary focus on the cotton and slave trades.
- It came to be settled by attorneys, cotton factors, doctors, merchants and other professionals seeking to capitalize on trade with the upriver areas.
- A plantation economy using slave labor developed in the region and as a consequence Mobile's population quickly grew.
- Much land well suited to growing cotton lies in the vicinity of the Mobile River, and its main tributaries the Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers.
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- The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain created shortages of cotton, driving up prices on world markets.
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- By 1822, the city's population had risen to 2,800.
- River transportation was aided by the introduction of steamboats in the early decades of the 19th century.
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- Mobile was well situated for trade, as its location tied it to a river system that served as the principal navigational access for most of Alabama and a large part of Mississippi.
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- Mobile's population had increased to 809 by that time.
- Alabama was granted statehood in 1819;
- The city was included in the Alabama Territory in 1817, after Mississippi gained statehood.
- By the time Mobile was included in the Mississippi Territory in 1813, the population had dwindled to roughly 300 people.
- when it was seized by United States General James Wilkinson during the War of 1812.
- The Spanish renamed the fort as Fortaleza Carlota, and held Mobile as a part of Spanish West Florida until 1813,
- Due to strong trade ties, many residents of Mobile and West Florida remained loyal to the British Crown.
- Their actions were condoned by the revolting American colonies, partially evidenced by the presence of Oliver Pollack, representative of the American Continental Congress.
- which they had received from France in the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
- The Spanish wished to eliminate any British threat to their Louisiana colony west of the Mississippi River,
- He captured Mobile during the Battle of Fort Charlotte in 1780, as part of this campaign.
- They took the opportunity to order Bernardo de Galvez, Governor of Louisiana, on an expedition east to retake West Florida.
- the Spanish entered the war in 1779 as an ally of France.
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- While the British were dealing with their rebellious colonists along the Atlantic coast,
- During the American Revolutionary War, West Florida and Mobile became a refuge for loyalists fleeing the other colonies.
- In 1766 the total population was estimated to be 860, though the town's borders were smaller than during the French colonial period.
- they added to the commercial development of Mobile.
- Most of these colonial-era Jews in Mobile were merchants and traders from Sephardic Jewish communities in Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina;
- and ordered all Jews out of France's colonies.
- a decree passed by France's King Louis XIV in 1685 that forbade the exercise of any religion other than Roman Catholicism,