Africatown USA (2019)
47 min | Documentary

Africatown USA (2019)

47 min | Documentary

In the summer of 1860, more than 50 years after the United States abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from West Africa are smuggled secretly ashore in Alabama under the cover of the night over a $100,000 ...See moreIn the summer of 1860, more than 50 years after the United States abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from West Africa are smuggled secretly ashore in Alabama under the cover of the night over a $100,000 bet. They are the last recorded group of enslaved Africans imported to the United States via the ship Clotilda. Africatown USA tells the events of these men, women and children, who were kidnapped from their native land in West Africa, enslaved in Ouidah, a coastal town in the Kingdom of Dahomey, the current day coastal country of Benin, and brought to America on what is believed to be the last slave ship, the Clotilda. Through their resilience, they not only survived the horrific Middle Passage, but the American Civil War, the reconstruction of Alabama, and the Jim Crow period, but they also fought to preserve their African memories, culture, and community over the generations. After the Emancipation Proclamation, the newly freed Africans tried, but failed to return to their beloved homeland Africa. The story describes the group reuniting from various plantations, alongside American-born, formerly enslaved men, women and children. The Africans bought land and founded their own settlement, which came to be known as Africatown. The Founders appointed tribal leaders and governed Africatown according to customary African laws, spoke their own regional language, kept their own customs, used African irrigation and gardening techniques, and built their own social structures. The people of Africatown formed their own self-sufficient world. See less

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