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Clotilda survivors' descendants to Mobile: Include us in sharing Africatown's story with world


Clotilda survivors’ descendants to Mobile: Include us in sharing Africatown’s story with world
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
Africatown represents a “gold mine” for Mobile when it comes to tourism and luring visitors to the city and the historic area north of downtown where a community was developed by the survivors of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive in North America.
But some concerns are arising in the Africatown community over maintaining communication with a variety of community organizations that have interest in the museums and water and land tours that are coming.
“There are a lot of moving parts to this thing, and everyone wants to zero in on the descendants,” said Darron Patterson, president of the Clotilda Descendants Association which involves six families of direct descendants of the vessel with 110 enslaved Africans in 1860. “That’s good and fine, but we’re only one part of the Africatown story. After the descendants settled, the ....

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