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The area was home to indigenous peoples for thousands of years. It was the home of the Muscogee and Creek peoples in historic times. They were later known by European-American settlers to be one of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast.
After the Creek War, the prominent Upper Creek chief Red Eagle of the Wind Clan settled here. The War of 1812 against Great Britain was underway at the time. Red Eagle started a cotton plantation. Red Eagle was both of European and Creek descent and adopted chattel slavery as a way to get workers for his plantation. The United States made it compulsory to move most Creeks from Alabama to Indian Territory in the 1830s to help them regain their territory.
European Americans mainly of English and Scots-Irish descent settled in the area. The area was developed mainly as cotton plantations during the antebellum era. Slave workers were often brought with planters from the Upper South. They also bought slaves from traders or markets once they had acquired land. Many slaves made up the majority of the population, and in some areas they outnumbered whites.
In the years after the American Civil War, Emancipation, and the beginning of the 20th century, white Democrats took back control of the state legislature. They worked to maintain and restore white supremacy. In 1901, the legislature adopted a new constitution that exempted most blacks from voting and disenfranchised tens of thousands more poor whites. Additionally, the legislators passed laws that imposed racial segregation as well as other Jim Crow forms. They also centralized power within the legislature.
