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ProCES 25th Anniversary SPONSORED BY THE G.S. BECKWITH GILBERT '63 LECTURE SERIES 4:30-5:45 "Responsible Research Practices with Environmental Justice Communities" In 1860, the last ship of enslaved people landed on the shore of Mobile Bay. After the end of the Civil War, these survivors of the Middle Passage bought land on the plateau above the river, built homes and a school, and called this place Africantown. Africatown was a sanctuary for Black Americans throughout Reconstruction and Jim Crow. However, like many historic Black towns along the Gulf Coast, Africatown has been ...

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More than a century after 110 Africans were smuggled to Alabama on a ship, the descendants of the ship's financier are working toward reconciliation.

Descendants of the enslaved Africans brought to Alabama on the last known slave ship met with the family of the ship's financier to discuss reconciliation.

Painstaking examinations of relics and technical data and rigorous peer review led historians and archaeologists to confirm last week that wreckage found in the Mobile River in 2018 was indeed the Clotilda,