The History of Africatown 

Thank you for this history lesson. I'm from Plateau, Al (Africatown). Daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah Russell. Green St.

Im Cudjoe Lewis’ great granddaughter

This is my hometown. All of my family is from here. In the documentary I could see so many memories of my family 😢. I'm happy to know my history.

I'm from Montgomery and I visit Mobile 3-4 times a year - I'm pulling up in Africatown/Plateau next time. I have to absorb the vibe, the energy, the connection to MY roots is a must 🌳🌍

i lived in Plateau Africa Town for a year and i didn't even know the history i lived on Cherry Street about two blocks from the Mobile County School that is so sad what our ancestors had to suffer through Rest in Peace to them all.

I’m reading Imani Perry’s amazing book, “South to America”, and this is the first time I have heard about your Community and the history behind it. Stories of enslaved survival need to be taught to us all.

This is fascinating and heart breaking. It’s an injustice that most of the school systems in this country have glossed over these travesties in our history lessons. I look back and can’t even believe that they had us having assemblies putting on shows for how great Christopher Columbus was. I always remember thinking as a child if he discovered America, but the native Americans were already here, how does that make any sense? But as a child, you don’t really press it. As an adult, it’s infuriating that these teachers made that happen. Great video.

WoW I am so happy this came to History I never knew bout this wasn't taught in our History class, I just seen it on Netflix I started watching it W0W right in Alabama,Thank God for this story being told it was hidden from our History.

This was an amazing story. This narrator should have his own show.

Here in America my paternal Grandmother was a freed slave. It's really a caring episode to see how I could have been created. Because, I am related to many of the ppl from the shipwreck.

No wonder hurricanes skips over Mobile. We are the ones

Wow, what a great and sad story. I grew up in the Prichard/Saraland area and never knew this. I knew we had an Africa Town Bridge, but that is all I knew. I will be researching more to inform some students about the untold stories of Mobile, Al. Thank You

Thanks for this lesson. I wasn't aware of this. (Love from South Carolina Sept. 26, 2020)❣

A great people with a great story on life and love. May The Most High continue to bless your families and to be a light that shines on our forefathers who made us all what we are today, blessed. And that we shall be heald and come out with great substance.

Great discover for me, I don't knew the story of Clotilda.. Greetings from France

The reason this is so confusing to most people is because not all skin folk is kinfolk. Weve been lied to about every single aspect of our history and I refuse to lay blame solely at the feet of white people. There is no such thing as an African American. Some of us have American Indian ancestry and some of us have hidden European ancestry. If you can't trace your African ancestry within the last 100 years, chances are IT DOESN'T EXIST!!! I can't stress this fact enough. Many of the gatekeepers to this information look just like us and are PURPOSEFULLY misleading us for whatever reason. Just know though, a massive hidden piece of history is that some of the very first pilgrims to make contact with our ancestors looked just like us. They were black Europeans aka Huguenots. For example, go Google the founder of Chicago. There's so much about our past that we're not aware of and unfortunately it's allowed a whole race of people to step in and assume our identity.

My great great grandfather Thomas Henry was a Yoruba man who immigrated willingly to the Caribbean in the 1840s from Sierra Leone. It's interesting to know that at the same time enslaved Africans were still being brought to the United States, even if illegally, they had already abolished both the slave trade and slavery in the West Indies and there were Yoruba people coming at the same exact time as free immigrants.

I heard they're considering making a museum to commemorate the finding of the Clotilda and the significance of the creation of Africatown.

My great grandma and grandmother and great great aunt attended this church their home going services was there also

They know....they kept records....

My grandfather and my dad's people are from there... We have heir property there... I want to know more... my dad and his sister and brothers grew up there... I was back and forth over there... I must know more about my family history.... It's now called plateau....

Thank you , the woman king brought me here.

Yo bro you really have to do this again with a 🎤

I would love to be able to speak with you. Matilda McCrear and Redoshi lived in communities along with my relatives.

This is amazing you mean to tell me as many times I been to Mobile AL i never heard of Africa town tis is a must see on my soon-to-be trip there . these were the last slaves and from the looks the build the own little town from wat the lady says out of much of nothing black people this is sacred lands this is we're the last people from the mother lands made there mark and we as black Americans honor this land bring it back to life .

Their slave importation was suppose to been stopped...

Last year I went on a tour of the Mobile/Tensaw Rivers and saw the spot where Cotilda was beached and the slaves were released.

Thank you

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Excellent and interesting report. I had no idea that the slaves lived through the voyage and burning of the ship until watching this. I had assumed that burning the ship had killed everyone. You talk about the separation of families, but it sounds like they were semi-free persons here. Were they free from the beginning or were some slaves here in the US -- or indentured who could buy their freedom?

Horrible, to be seperated from all of yourfamily,..stolen away,...think about that fellow white americans,.. think about it in your own family instance,...i mean it,.......i am crippled emotionally at the thoughts and feels of it,...

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its sickening that the maher family kept, and still have, the only private property for MILES, within feet from where the ships remains were found. no one can convince me that family was unaware there was a sunken ship feet away from their river cabin. That family has more land in the area than you would ever imagine. Chippewa Lakes LLC. The damn state park on causeway is named after that family, its disgusting

Hey if anyone knows what classes in my college i should enroll in, in order for me to learn things like This. Let me know.

Is it safe? I've read several articles saying you should leave before dark. Im planning to go tomorrow but there's nothing really to go to.

The entire continent of Africa has had centuries of famine and starvation. If this happened at the end of slavery is it safe to say that the Captain of the Clotilda actually helped save the slaves and they quickly became free humans?

All the people look like my grandparents 😅

So has any one from the area looked into Dane Callaway?

Oh I thought this was africville in Nova Scotia ! 😮

Go, watch the documentary, the journey of a Man genetic Odyssey, it tells the true story of everyone’s history.

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there was no slave ships They were only small sailboats at the time. There was never millions and millions of slaves. They would not have survived the voyage, so history is wrong. The indigenous people yes, meaning black the indigenous people was already in the Americas. Please people get a grip on yourself. Go in Google. The story about Alex Haley, that's a lie too. The movie roots a big live in in the world of information. I suggest that you use it. We are the indians