Was possibly taken. In the film which are about to see just a brief glimpse of her and her her name in the film is sally smith. Can you explain . She was bought by a man called washington smith and he gave her his name. It appears that the survivors were fought by him and took his name basically. Its diminutive its a name that you give to a child or to animals its a way of a dehumanizing. What was the killed . The detail that was the last station in 1860 and for many years thank you all adjust actually discovered it and let less than two months ago. Many of the survivors in the community were known as african town. Yes and they still did their best of the day. When you heard that discovery in alabama, what was your initial thought . What can we learn about these artifacts . Its so important, it validates the experience of clatilda and the stories in the seventies and it was a Poor Community and a community in which she lived throughout her life where in a poor hes, community and was ab
Thanks for being with us on cspan3s American History tv and let me begin with that question. Who was redoshi . Well, redoshi was a west african born women who very sadly was kidnapped in 1860 and is believed to be the last as far as we can tell, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. Its believed that she was yoruba, she was kidnapped in a slave raid. Possibly as young as 12 years old and she was taken. In the film, which we are about to see, just a brief glimpse of her and her name in the film is sally smith. Can you explain . Yes, so she was bought by a name called washington smith and he gave her his name, it appears that four survivors were bought by him and they all were given his name basically. And sally i guess its a diminutive, its sort of a name that you give to a child or to an animal, sort of his way of dehumanizing. And what was the clotillda . It was the last slave ship to reach the u. S. It was in 1860. It was for many years dismissed as a hoax, but archeolo
Glimpse of her and her name in the film is sally smith. Can you explain . Yes, so she was bought by a name called washington smith and he gave her his name, it appears that four survivors were bought by him and they all were given his name basically. And sally i guess its a diminutive, its sort of a name that you give to a child or to an animal, sort of his way of dehumanizing. And what was the clotillda. It was the last slave ship to reach the u. S. It was in 1860. It was for many years dismissed as a hoax, but archeologists actually discovered it in mobile bay just less than two months ago. Many of the survivors formed their own community in mobile known as africa town. Their descendants still live there today. And when you heard about that discovery in mobile, alabama, what was your initial thought and what can we learn from its artifacts . Yeah, well, its so important. It validates the experiences of survivors of the cotilda, it validates the stories of their descendants. Its a Poo
[gavel] good morning everyone. Welcome to our speed was Committee Meeting of thursday, june 30, 2016. Im katie tang chair of the committee. Joined by vice chair supervisor eric martinmilius to my left melia cohen to our clerk is derek evans and from speedy sfgov tv we like to thank jim smith. Any announcements . Yes. Please sounds all electronic devices. Items acted upon today will be on the july 12, 2016 board of supervisors board of agenda unless otherwise stated thank you please call adam one item 1 [reading code] thank you. I believe we have supervisor peskins office. Thank you chairman tang and supervisors mar and cohen and thank you for consideration of this item this mentor apologizings supervisor peskin is not able to join the discussion. The Charter Amendment before you is a simple Good Government measure that seeks to provide oversight and transparency to 2 acres of the city housing and Community Development function. A supervisor peskin stated in his local comments the combi
Good morning everyone. Welcome to our speed was Committee Meeting of thursday, june 30, 2016. Im katie tang chair of the committee. Joined by vice chair supervisor eric martinmilius to my left melia cohen to our clerk is derek evans and from speedy sfgov tv we like to thank jim smith. Any announcements . Yes. Please sounds all electronic devices. Items acted upon today will be on the july 12, 2016 board of supervisors board of agenda unless otherwise stated thank you please call adam one item 1 [reading code] thank you. I believe we have supervisor peskins office. Thank you chairman tang and supervisors mar and cohen and thank you for consideration of this item this mentor apologizings supervisor peskin is not able to join the discussion. The Charter Amendment before you is a simple Good Government measure that seeks to provide oversight and transparency to 2 acres of the city housing and Community Development function. A supervisor peskin stated in his local comments the combined budg