Side of the river. This structure was donated to us about 10 years ago by the descendants of the original founders of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870 two parcels of land with the express purpose of building a house of worship. And in the sale document which we have from the courthouse, they named their structure they named their congregation the antiyokut baptist congregation, and that message of being against the yoke, or against slavery, is something that is important for our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river, and so it is really important here in talking about the lives of people who socked freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here, where we can kind of the what happens to people, some of the things they care about after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only to show in that is all of these things help us tell we had to build things here an
By the descendents of the original founders all that congregation. Y bought the land in 1870 two parcels of land with the express purpose of building a house of worship. They named their structure they named their congregation the antiyokut baptist congregation and that message of being against the yoke or against slavery is important for our story here. This is important for slaves on the east bank, so its really. Mportant we like to start our tour at the lady plantation, where we can kind of the what happens to people, some of the things they care about after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only plan to show in that is devoted to taking andour owner started we had to kind of build it, build some things here. All of these things help us tell the story of slavery. The John Cummings built property, there were no original slave cabins. We had to move those in from elsewhere. This helped us round out our story and then we had other buildings. Collection. And at the end of slav
Clotilda the less slave ship to bring slaves to north america. Then, we take you on a tour of africatown with tour guide eric finley. My name is eric finley, and i am the decent for the African American heritage trail. This is our 14th year for doing the tours here in mobile. And they got started around five or six years prior to that, when one of our city councilman took a trip to boston on the city business, and while he was there he saw a sign that said African American heritage trail. He said that sounded interesting because it was kind of a novelty and part in most of the minions museums that we see today, and we took the tour, and he endured it, and he got to thinking lets way back to mobile, its close to 300 years old, and he had heard his family discuss about a lot of the contributions that African Americans had made. So i think this is something that we could do in mobile and do it very well, so he started looking around the city for someone that would take on the opportunity
A circumstance to animals to people who move to the markets there no less than a celebrity like support mccartney who is quick to say we must close the wet markets down i notice youve been keen to emphasize the difference between western markets per se and wildlife markets perhaps seeking not to oriental eyes this pandemic. Yes well the thing is the point about a wet market is that most wet markets in china dont sell wild animals theyre more like they promise markets that we have while we have them in britain and america but not wild animals thats now been closed in china the trading and selling of wild animals for troops the problem here is you saw one problem but then another looms and the one looming here is all the thousands of people who actually have no other likelihood so you have to help them get through changing from breeding and selling wild animals hunting wild animals for food and finding another way of making money so you see poverty is crucial eradication of poverty is cr
Settlements in Central Europe along with mines and warms the 3 cities were even called jerusalem on the rhine. The. Spire warms and minds are considered the cradle of european judaism jewish life has shaped these 3 cities for more than 900 years and i want to know what remains of it so todays show is not just the city trip but also a journey through jewish history. In our email we also jet over the ski slopes in austria. We take a tour of the port city of haifa in israel. And take a closer look at minus. The old. In these 2 streets in you can guess and plan the plot from gaza a jewish reserve venture area was created 1000 years ago because jews were only allowed to settle here the houses were built particularly narrow and high in order to offer as much space as possible. The speed of museum is also located here in the you wouldnt have the jewish courtyard. In the middle ages buyout was called in hebrew which is how the museum got its name. Warms was called. Mines. For this reason these