Liberty Hall: Home of the Confederate Vice President

Just outside Crawfordville stands the estate of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederacy, and he named it Liberty Hall. Stephens was a slight, frail man, rarely weighing more than one hundred pounds, known as Little Aleck, and regarded as one of the most powerful orators of his era. He had served in the United States House of Representatives for sixteen years before the war and returned to Congress and the Georgia governorship afterward.

But he is best remembered for a speech he gave in March of eighteen sixty-one, weeks before the war began, in which he declared that the Confederacy's cornerstone rested on the great truth that the Black man was not equal to the white. The house now called Liberty Hall was built in eighteen seventy-two and is preserved today as part of A. H.

Stephens Historic Park.