Clotilda

In the previous StoryCorps segment, Chris Williams discussed the issue of pollution in Africatown. And today, he’s back to talk about how a letter he wrote to President Obama helped bring attention to the forgotten story of the historic community.

Darron Patterson talks to new friend Franchesca Pena at StoryCorps about how his ancestors came to Africatown, the history of the Clotilda, and how he sees racist ideologies of the past still impacting our society today.

The last known U.S. slave ship is too "broken" and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers and historians announced following a years long investigation.

City officials are seeking public opinion on exterior finishes, wall coverings and other design elements that can be incorporated inside the building. A community survey has been released for residents to share their thoughts. It will close this Friday.

A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened Saturday, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived in Alabama's Mobile Bay.

The City of Mobile is working to bring history to life. The History Museum of Mobile has collaborated with the County Commission to build an exhibit about the Clotilda. The Clotilda is the last known slave ship to bring Africans to the United States.

To continue gathering public input on the design of the future Africatown Welcome Center, the City of Mobile and its design partners have launched an online survey and feedback form for residents in the Africatown community and other Mobilians.

The story of an illegal slave ship brought to Alabama and the descendants of its captives is front and center today. A two-day lecture at Troy University is focusing on the discovery the Clotilda and the significance of the Africatown community.

All month long, the Alabama Public Radio news team has featured excerpts from a public discussion on slavery in the state. The event took place at the GulfQuest Maritime Museum in Mobile, which is hosting an exhibition on slave ships

Alabama Public Radio has been spotlighting the history of the slave ship Clotilda all throughout February for Black History Month. Africatown in the Plateau community in Mobile was established by some of the one hundred and twenty two kidnapped Africans brought over aboard the Clotilda in 1860. There’s now a new effort to use old traditions to tell the story of the last slave ship to come to America.