Friday, February 17, 2023 10:00 AM by Jacqui Agate
The Alabama city made headlines in 2019 when the mouldering remains of the Clotilda – the last known ship to bring captive Africans into the US in the mid-19th
Friday, February 17, 2023 9:00 AM by Gary Stoller
A terrible, cruel part of U.S. history will become better known this summer when the Africatown Heritage House opens to the public in Mobile, Alabama.
The 5,000-square-foot house will be a museum that
Friday, July 29, 2022 11:00 AM by Jacqui Agate
Nowhere is this more palpable than in Mobile, a Gulf Coast city some 250 miles south of Birmingham. The city made headlines in 2019, when the Clotilda – the last ship known
Thursday, June 16, 2022 2:00 PM by Laura Kiniry
Even after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved labor in 1807, smugglers continued to bring captured West Africans across the
