Remains of the last known U.S. slave ship may hold details about the heritage of Africatown residents. - NBCBLK
be retrieved from the water to both fill out details about their heritage and to serve as an attraction that might revitalize the place their ancestors built after emancipation?
Others aren’t too concerned about the ship itself, which they view as only part of a larger story. The president of the Clotilda Descendants Association, Darron Patterson, said a few artifacts and a replica would be just fine for telling the tale of the 110 African captives and how their lives add to the narrative of slavery and the United States.
After the war ended, a group of the Africans settled north of Mobile in a place that came to be called Africatown USA. With Meaher refusing to give them land, they purchased property and started a thriving community that resembled the Africa of their memories. A few thousand people still live in the area, which is now surrounded by heavy industry and fell into disrepair in recent decades.
A final report including a detailed, subsequent analysis will take awhile, he said. But the wreck, in as much as 10 feet of water, is remarkably good shape because it’s been encased for decades in protective mud that conceivably could hold traces of DNA from captives, officials say.
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