Buffalo soldier re-enactors at the groundbreaking for the Clotilda Museum in Africantown
Credit APR s Guy Busby
On a February afternoon, a squad of re-enactors dressed as nineteenth century black calvarymen, known as Buffalo Soldiers, presented the colors at a ceremony to start construction of Africatown Heritage House. The museum will open this summer to tell the story of America’s last slave ship, the people it carried, and their legacy. Because this is serious stuff to make sure that we never, ever forget the story of those people who made this place what it is. We won t forget, said Darron Patterson, president of the Clotilda Descendants Association.