Posted on Jun 15, 2022
Exploring the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the U.S., brings hope
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Juneteenth has long had special meaning for the descendants of the last slave ship known to come to the United States, the Clotilda. People like Vernetta Henson and Darron Patterson of Mobile, Ala.
They're descendants of Polee and Rose Allen, who were among the more than 100 kidnapped Africans a wealthy Alabama plantation owner smuggled into Mobile aboard the Clotilda 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was abolished, and then sunk the ship to bury evidence of the crime.
Since the shipwreck was found three years ago, there's been new focus on the Clotilda survivors and the community they founded after emancipation.
Henson leads tours of the area, just north of downtown Mobile.
Juneteenth has long had special meaning for the descendants of the last slave ship known to come to the United States, the Clotilda. People like Vernetta Henson and Darron Patterson of Mobile, Ala.
They're descendants of Polee and Rose Allen, who were among the more than 100 kidnapped Africans a wealthy Alabama plantation owner smuggled into Mobile aboard the Clotilda 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was abolished, and then sunk the ship to bury evidence of the crime.
Since the shipwreck was found three years ago, there's been new focus on the Clotilda survivors and the community they founded after emancipation.
Henson leads tours of the area, just north of downtown Mobile.
Exploring the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the U.S., brings hope
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
...""He bought two acres early on and he built his own house with his own hands, but with help from other people," says Toulmin.
He's found evidence the men who settled Africatown worked cooperatively to build each other's houses. Polee Allen was also an ambitious farmer.
"He grew onions, garlic, pears, plums, apples, figs, scuppernong grapes, peanuts, watermelons, cantaloupes, bananas and okra," Toulmin says. "And he also raised bees for the honey and raised chickens, cows, hogs and horses."
Learning all this fills Henson with a sense of pride.
"Golly, we really did have a big family that contributed a lot to the American dream."
...""He bought two acres early on and he built his own house with his own hands, but with help from other people," says Toulmin.
He's found evidence the men who settled Africatown worked cooperatively to build each other's houses. Polee Allen was also an ambitious farmer.
"He grew onions, garlic, pears, plums, apples, figs, scuppernong grapes, peanuts, watermelons, cantaloupes, bananas and okra," Toulmin says. "And he also raised bees for the honey and raised chickens, cows, hogs and horses."
Learning all this fills Henson with a sense of pride.
"Golly, we really did have a big family that contributed a lot to the American dream."
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They weren’t slaves, they were domestic servants that were beaten and killed instead of paid.
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