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Virtual Africatown festival to celebrate female Clotilda survivors Updated Dec 14, 2020; Africatown’s 2021 Spirit of Our Ancestors Festival will shift to a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will put the spotlight on women who survived the voyage of the slave ship Clotilda, organizers have announced. The festival normally is a gathering that features ceremonies to honor the Clotilda survivors who went on to found the unique Africatown community, and the ancestors who preserved ...