Join the Community Ceremony Celebrating the Discovery of the Clotilda!
Thursday, May 30, 2019
4 to 5:30pm
Locaton: Robert L. Hope Community Center (850 Edwards St., Mobile, AL 36610)
This is a family friendly event with a Community Ceremony, Celebration, & Second Line! Bring the kids, your umbrellas and bandanas. Light refreshments will be served.
Brought to you by the Young People of Africatown, and CHESS (Clean Healthy Educated Safe & Sustainiable).
What is the Clotilda? The schooner Clotilda was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at Mobile Bay with 110–160 African men, women, and children and young adults between the ages of 5 and 23 on board, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama. The ship illegally transported 110 people from Benin in Africa to Mobile from February to July 1860.
