About the Author

Rhoda Coleman Ellison is a native of Centreville in Bibb County, and is Professor Emerita of English at Huntingdon College.

Reviews

"Ellison has established a model for those who wish to write a good county history. She tells the story of Bibb County thoughtfully and skillfully against a background of state and national events. She balances the political and economic with cultural history, and she captures the spirit of the people of this very rural Alabama county."--Journal of Southern History

"Ellison has written an outstanding book, a book that mirrors, on a reduced scale, many of the events of 19th-century Alabama and of much of the Deep South."--Southern Historian