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The Alabama territorial legislature created Dallas County on February 9, 1818, from Montgomery County. This was a part of the Creek cession of lands to the US government on August 9, 1814. The Creek was one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast. Alexander J. Dallas, U.S. Treasury Secretary of Pennsylvania, was the county's name.
Dallas County is in the region known as the Black Belt of the west-central section of the state. Its fertile soil was the reason for the name. The area was developed primarily for cotton plantations by enslaved African Americans during the antebellum period. Many of the African Americans who remained in the region worked as sharecroppers or tenant farmers after the Civil War. Because of the many slaves who labored in the plantations, the county is majority black since before World War II.
Dallas County was the most productive county in Texas for cotton production by 1860. This required a large number of workers who were enslaved. Dallas County had an average of seventeen slave owners; 16% of the county’s white population were slave owners. However, if you add their families, at least a third were slaveholding families, according to historian Alston Fitts.
Washington Smith, a prominent local slaveowner, was the founder of the Bank of Selma and owner of Bogue Chitto in Alabama. He also founded the Bank of Selma. This bank continued to have a great influence on the African-American community even after Emancipation. Smith bought Redoshi and gave him the name Sally Smith. Redoshi was a West African woman from Benin, who had been kidnapped when she was 12 years old. She was then transported to America on the Clotilda. This transport brought enslaved Africans to America for 50 years.
The Alabama River flows from northeast to southwest through the county, traversing the county. It borders Perry, Chilton, and Autauga counties. The original Dallas county seat was in Cahaba. This served as the state capital during a brief time. The county seat was moved to Selma in Alabama in 1865 after the population center had moved. Marion Junction, Sardis and Orrville, Valley Grande, and Minter are just a few of the communities and towns found in this rural county.
