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Illustrations Figures Frontispiece. Warrior, Cahaba, Coosa, and Plateau Coal Fields 1. William Phineas Browne and Margaret Stevens Browne 3 2. Joseph Squire 5 3. Isaac Taylor Tichenor 38 4. South & North Alabama Railroad Bridge No. 72 39 5. Truman H. Aldrich 40 6. William F. Aldrich 41 7. James W. Sloss 42 8. Henry F. DeBardeleben 42 9. Guy Gilliland and George Brewer 45 10. William “Uncle Billy” Gould 57 11. “Rajah Lodge” 70 12. Geologic map of the Cahaba synclinorium and adjacent areas 72 13. Room and pillar method of extraction 75 14. Roden Coal Company 78 15. Marvel Mines Nos. 1 and 2 78 16. Coleanor Mine 80 17. Advertisement for the Montevallo Coal Mining Company 84 18. Charles F. “Uncle Charlie” DeBardeleben 85 x / Illustrations 19. “Little Italy” 90 20. Belle Ellen Prison 104 21. Convicts 105 22. Commissary Staff 115 23. Scrip from the Little Cahaba Coal Company 117 24. West Blocton School 126 25. Baseball Team in Aldrich 128 26. Alabama Fuel and Iron Company Band 129 Tables 1. Convict-­Lease Contracts, 1873 96 2. Economic Benefits of Convict Leasing 106 ...

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