MM#16 Behind Confederate Lines

In 1861, Alabama seceded from the United States. Not everyone went along with it. Deep in the hill country of northwest Alabama sat Winston County—a place of shallow soil, steep ridges, and small farmers who had no slaves, no plantations, and no interest in dying for a cause that wasn't theirs. When the state sent a delegate to the secession convention, Winston County sent a 21-year-old schoolteacher named Christopher Sheats with one instruction: Don't sign. And he didn't. In this episode, we travel to the county that told the Confederacy no… and paid the price for it in blood, imprisonment, and eighty years of punishment from a state that never forgave them for being right. Because the South was never as unified as the monuments want you to believe. 🎧 Take a bite of this Morbid Morsel. www.MorbidHistoryPod.com Original music in this episode is provided by the talented: SHDWLRKR