fulanigirl
@fulanigirl@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp last month
#BlackMastodon#BlackTwitter#Clotilda#Africatown#KamauSadiki#AfricanAmericanHistory I think @Deglassco may have written about the Clotilda, a wrecked slave ship. Two white men in Mobile AL made a bet that they could get some kidnapped Africans and forcibly transport them to the US in 1860, about 50 years after the importation of Africans for the purpose of enslavement was banned. 2/6
fulanigirl
@fulanigirl@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
#BlackMastodon#BlackTwitter#Clotilda#Africatown#KamauSadiki#AfricanAmericanHistory They succeeded in bringing 100 kidnapped and enslaved Africans to Mobile. The people were sold and the ship was burned to cover up their wrong doing. When the civil war ended those Africans had only been here for 5 years. They knew who they were and remembered where they came from. Some of them founded Africatown outside of Mobile AL and their descendants still live there today. 3/6
fulanigirl
@fulanigirl@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
#BlackMastodon#BlackTwitter#Clotilda#Africatown#KamauSadiki#AfricanAmericanHistory A few months back, I was fortunate to meet the director of the film entitled DESCENDANT which tells the story of the Clotilda, its people and the saga of trying to locate and salvage the Clotilda wreck, which was believed to be the the Mobile River. Divers With a Purpose (DWP) assisted with locating and recovering the wreck. 4/6
fulanigirl
@fulanigirl@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
#BlackMastodon#BlackTwitter#Clotilda#Africatown#KamauSadiki#AfricanAmericanHistory The film heavily features DWP diver Kamau Sadiki, who has participated on teams working on the recovery of 5 wrecked slave ships. Through some hard work, tenacity, and a stroke of good luck we were able to interview Kamau on our podcast. He has an emotionally moving connection with our ancestors lost in the enslavement era, and talked about the importance of remembering them. 5/6
fulanigirl
@fulanigirl@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
#BlackMastodon#BlackTwitter#Clotilda#Africatown#KamauSadiki#AfricanAmericanHistory
Try to watch the film. Its on Netflix. And if you can listen to Kamau on our Youtube channel, on Spotify, or if you don’t want to be tracked and targeted for ads, you can listen on our website. He drops some serious knowledge. 6/6
https://nubiantigerspodcast.com/recovering-our-history-from-deep-waters/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQeXIMcs4zo
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/nubian-tigers/episodes/Recovering-Our-History-From-Deep-Waters-e34rovc