Vernetta Henson sits outside Union Baptist Church in Africatown. The church was started by Clotilda survivors in 1869. To her left is the bust of Cudjoe Lewis, one of the community's founder. (Debbie ...
With storms moving in and a high-rise bridge looming overhead, a group of descendants and supporters gathered Saturday to pay tribute to the last Africans brought into slavery in the United States.
The discovery of the ship on an Alabama river bottom has fostered a renewed hope for descendants of the Clotilda's captives, and the community... Exploring the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in ...