Freetown is a former African American community near Gallion, in Hale County, Alabama, United States, in the so-called Canebrake region.

Land and buildings formerly owned by a local slave-owning planter were left to both free and enslaved African Americans who had worked for him and lived with him, and the community lasted until the 1920s.

[1] They built their community on over six hundred acres (240 ha) of land left to them by the local planter John Collins.

[1] Originally a man of modest means, Collins had migrated to Alabama from Virginia, in 1837, where he became an overseer for Henry Augustine Tayloe, a wealthy slaveholding planter and horse breeder.

The soil was rich in the Canebrake region, and the Tayloes grew cotton on about 13,000 acres (5,300 ha), with the free forced labor of almost 800 enslaved people.

[2] In the 1920s Freetown was incorporated into Allenville, Alabama,[4] and that decade it was said to be at its peak; shortly thereafter, though, migration to cities spelled the end of the community.