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The last known slave ship to touch American shores arrived in Alabama in 1860, more than 50 years after the international slave trade was outlawed in the U.S. After carrying 110 captives from Dahomey (now Benin) to Mobile, the Clotilda was burned and sunk in an attempt to destroy the evidence of the crime. After emancipation, a number of the survivors of that voyage formed a community in northern Mobile, known as Africatown, where descendants still live today.
Though she grew up in Mobile, Alabama, documentary director Margaret Brown says she was never taught this local history in school. With survivors and descendants fearful of spreading their story for decades and the remains of the Clotilda lost for even longer, some believed it was a myth. But as Brown’s latest film, Descendant — premiering on Netflix and in some theaters on Friday — chronicles, the Clotilda was very real,...
The last known slave ship to touch American shores arrived in Alabama in 1860, more than 50 years after the international slave trade was outlawed in the U.S. After carrying 110 captives from Dahomey (now Benin) to Mobile, the Clotilda was burned and sunk in an attempt to destroy the evidence of the crime. After emancipation, a number of the survivors of that voyage formed a community in northern Mobile, known as Africatown, where descendants still live today.
Though she grew up in Mobile, Alabama, documentary director Margaret Brown says she was never taught this local history in school. With survivors and descendants fearful of spreading their story for decades and the remains of the Clotilda lost for even longer, some believed it was a myth. But as Brown’s latest film, Descendant — premiering on Netflix and in some theaters on Friday — chronicles, the Clotilda was very real,...
- 10/21/2022
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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