Tag: Africatown
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...