Alabama’s Africatown Founded by Africans

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purchase Africans decades after Congress outlawed such trade in 1808.</p><p id="ea54">This last illegal trip across the ocean to purchase Africans that were captured and made into slaves was financed by a wealthy businessman whose descendants yet remain prominent in Mobile.</p><p id="acfb">After the capture of these Africans and the return of the Clotilda to Alabama, the captain set fire to the vessel after the Africans were escorted off the ship to conceal the evidence of this illegal trip.</p><p id="8535">As fate would have it, even though they tried to rid themselves of the evidence of this trip, by setting the ship on fire but most of the ship did not catch fire, but remained in the river much intact and was identified in 2019.</p><p id="3ab4">Mobile’s preservation society plans include additional research surrounding this ship and the possibility of its preservation. Extracting the ship from the water and mud to be put on display will take lots of funding and strategic care due to its frailty. Talks of a museum are underway. Also, Alabama has allocated $1 million dollars for its preservation and research.</p><p id="dfea">Many of the Africans that were transported on the Clotilda and freed after the South lost the Civil War, settled in Africatown, USA, a community they started near downtown Mobile.</p><p id="b989">Africatown and its inhabitants have become the subject of a documentary that will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Also, the locals will have their own celebration of their history.</p><p id="b48a"><b>In conclusion</b>, Africatown has been a well-kept secret for hundreds of years and now the world will learn more about the Africans who built this country on their backs as they were forced from Africa into slavery and servitude. White America wants to keep the truth hidden but the truth will stand as a lie limps away into darkness.</p><p id="3420">For additional reads:</p><div id="6550" class="link-block">

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The Clotilda, the last illegal slave ship across the Atlantic ocean to purchase Africans.

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According to researchers, the above slave ship wreckage is the last U.S. ship of 1860 that has remained intact after it was set on fire and sunk off the shores of Alabama after an illegal trip to purchase African across the Atlantic Ocean.

From the ship wreckage, about two-thirds of the ship remained inclusive of a slave pen that was unventilated when transporting Africans as slaves. This was designed to treat these Africans as cargo bound below the main deck for weeks with the possibility of not having food and water but chained like animals.

This site where the wreckage was found is not inclusive of the National Register of Historic Places. This slave ship is the most intact discovery of its nature ever. It remained intact due to being located in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta’s fresh water and in mud that protected its structure.

According to Charlie Lewis, an African captive, sixth-generation granddaughter, Joycelyn Davis, this story surrounding transporting Africans as slaves on this ship happened more than 160 years ago.

Ancestors of the captives are the best ones, to tell the truth of what happened, assisting researchers in piecing together the reality of this ship’s wreckage and not some historical perspective that may be void of what really transpired during this passage from Africa to Alabama.

According to documentation, the Clotilda, a ship that is 90 feet in length, was the last ship known that transported African captives to the American South for enslavement. It departed Mobile, Alabama, an illegal trip to purchase Africans decades after Congress outlawed such trade in 1808.

This last illegal trip across the ocean to purchase Africans that were captured and made into slaves was financed by a wealthy businessman whose descendants yet remain prominent in Mobile.

After the capture of these Africans and the return of the Clotilda to Alabama, the captain set fire to the vessel after the Africans were escorted off the ship to conceal the evidence of this illegal trip.

As fate would have it, even though they tried to rid themselves of the evidence of this trip, by setting the ship on fire but most of the ship did not catch fire, but remained in the river much intact and was identified in 2019.

Mobile’s preservation society plans include additional research surrounding this ship and the possibility of its preservation. Extracting the ship from the water and mud to be put on display will take lots of funding and strategic care due to its frailty. Talks of a museum are underway. Also, Alabama has allocated $1 million dollars for its preservation and research.

Many of the Africans that were transported on the Clotilda and freed after the South lost the Civil War, settled in Africatown, USA, a community they started near downtown Mobile.

Africatown and its inhabitants have become the subject of a documentary that will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year. Also, the locals will have their own celebration of their history.

In conclusion, Africatown has been a well-kept secret for hundreds of years and now the world will learn more about the Africans who built this country on their backs as they were forced from Africa into slavery and servitude. White America wants to keep the truth hidden but the truth will stand as a lie limps away into darkness.

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