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Alabama's Africatown can tell stories of slavery in ways few others can, officials say


Alabama’s Africatown can tell stories of slavery in ways few others can, officials say
Updated May 05, 2021;
Africatown efforts to tell the story of America’s last slave ship could eventually draw more tourists than Montgomery has been attracting since the Equal Justice Initiative opened a lynching memorial and museum three years ago, the head of the state’s tourism department said Tuesday.
Lee Sentell, director of the Alabama Department of Tourism, said he believes travelers who “love history” are “anxious” to visit the Mobile area and meet the descendants of the slave ship Clotilda and “absorb their remarkable stories.” ....

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