Tag: descendants
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...
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...