A recent broadcast of National Public Radio’s “On the Media” took an in-depth look at Africatown, a community three miles north of downtown Mobile that was built by a group of West African slaves brought illegally to the United States on The Clotilda in 1860.
The episode of “On the Media” hosted by Brooke Gladstone featured Africatown resident Joe Womack, MOVE Gulf Coast Community Development Corporation president and CEO Vickii Howell, and History Museum of Mobile historian Charles Torrey.
Recently, ship wreckage was discovered in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta that some thought might have been the Clotilda. Archaeologists determined it was not the Clotilda, but that discovery has given Africatown’s future a renewed focus.
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