Tag: slavery
Inside Historic Africatown With Descendants of Slave Ship Clotilda
By Vickii Howell
Special to the Birmingham Times
MOBILE, Ala.—For decades, a handful of ancestors and neighborhood historians held down the legends of Africatown’s founding, recalling...
The Spectacular Find of the Clotilda and What’s Next
By Vickii Howell
Special to the Birmingham Times
MOBILE, Ala.—The discovery of the Clotilda slave ship last month in the Mobile River Delta is one of...
Birmingham Commemorates Juneteenth
Amarr Croskey photos
Kelly Ingram Park was packed on Saturday, June 15 as metro area residents celebrated the city’s 20th annual Juneteenth with the Birmingham...
Clotilda: Last US slave ship discovered among gators, snakes
By Jay Reeves
Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The old wooden ship hull didn’t look like much when researchers first saw it: just broken, waterlogged...
New Interactive Website Featuring Henry Louis Gates, Tracks Slave Voyages
By Stacy M. Brown
BlackPressUSA
In his PBS series, “Finding Your Roots …” Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents guests whose roots cover the globe – from...
Malveaux: Four hundred years later and we still ain’t clear
Four hundred years and we still ain’t clear
By Julianne Malveaux
According to some historians, Afrodescendents first entered these united states in 1619 off the coast...
After Two Years of Love, She Finishes Quilt That tells Secrets...
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
Judy Higey came to Birmingham 13 years ago from Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband, Ron, who is pastor of the...
Sketches # 1456
Sketches # 1456
by Senator Hank Sanders
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I wonder why the end of slavery is not celebrated annually in these United States of America? I wonder...