Montgomery Brawl

In honor of thee legendary event, in this month of August something Montgomery had the when nation rocking!! Just touched your soul to see black people unit to fight against their own injustice. The #MontgomeryRiverboatBrawl wasn't just a fight, it was a change in history! A change from hundreds of slaves put to work to load cotton onto the first Steamboat Harriot in the 1820s to trade cotton from Montgomery to Mobile. In the 1840s, slave traders began to trade slavea but the steamboat and the railroad. Steamboats carried slaves from Mobile and New Orleans up the Alabama River to Montgomery. Hundreds of enslaved people began arriving by boat each day, turning the city into a principal slave trading center in Alabama. Enslaved people who arrived at the riverfront or at the train station were paraded up Commerce Street to be sold in the city’s slave markets. It wasn't just a fight happened it was a a** whooping that was decades in the making! OUR HANDS ARE NO LONG CHAINED!!