The documentary is part of National Geographic’s projects to commemorate Black History month, along with a podcast called “Into the depths” and March magazine. An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor’s Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. central time on National Geographic and will be available for streaming Feb. The Clotida Slave Ship was discovered in 2018, after men from Mobile tried to burn the ship and destroy evidence that African slaves had been smuggled into the Mobile Bay, which in 1860, had been illegal for the past five centuries.ĭescendants of the slaves from the Clotilda ship now reside in Africa town, a historic community in Mobile that works to preserve and highlight the community’s history and it’s ties to the Clotilda. The Clotida was also covered in a 60 minute special in 2020 and in “Surviving Clotilda,” a 25-minute documentary that was featured at SCAD film festival in 2021.
by an African of his experiences as a victim of the slave trade and as a slave. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this dayby the journalist who discovered the ship’s remains.Fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed, the.
The documentary will be presented on Hulu, bringing the ship’s history and the story of Africatown into national light once again. A few free blacks also owned slave holding plantations in Louisiana. Mobile United to honor MLK Day with day of service event
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