Lafayette Robinson

Lafayette Robinson was a bank cashier who served as a delegate to Alabama's 1867 Constitutional Convention representing Madison County, Alabama. He also served on the Huntsville School Board. He worked at the Freedman's Savings Bank in Huntsville.

Lafayette's father, John Robinson,[1] was enslaved prior to 1828 when he was manumitted by the state legislature. In 1830 the legislature allowed him to free his wife and their two children, one of whom was Lafayette Robinson.[2]

Lafayette Robinson left Alabama during the American Civil War to avoid conscription in the Confederate Army.[3] He, Andrew J. Applegate, and Columbus Jones appeared on an 1867 "Republican Union" ticket as delegate candidates for the Alabama Constitutional Convention. They were elected.[4]

A panic caused Freedman's Savings Bank to fail costing African American depositors.[1][5]

References
  1. Bailey, Richard (December 12, 2010). Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867-1878. NewSouth Books. ISBN 9781588381897 – via Google Books.
  2. Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner page (1996) 185
  3. Milteer, Warren Eugene Jr. (September 15, 2021). Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469664408 – via Google Books.
  4. "Q129720 - Q129721". digital.archives.alabama.gov.
  5. Betts, Edward Chambers (December 12, 1916). "Early History of Huntsville, Alabama, 1804 to 1870". Brown Printing Company – via Google Books.


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