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. central time on National Geographic and will be available for streaming Feb. Here we read three documents of the early slave trade that you will find. 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 last nation in the western hemisphere to abolish slavery was Brazil in 1888). 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. The documentary will be presented on Hulu, bringing the ship’s history and the story of Africatown into national light once again. She was just two years old when she arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in July 1860, a captive aboard the infamous Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring. Mobile United to honor MLK Day with day of service event
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