Alabama NewsCenter — Clotilda: The Exhibition, at Africatown Heritage House, honors slave ship survivors, descendants and the Alabama community they created

By: Allanah Taylor

More than 160 years after they arrived in the United States, Clotilda: The Exhibition provides an entry point for talking about the 110 men, women and children brought to Mobile on the last known slave ship, and their descendants.

The focus of the exhibit at the new Africatown Heritage House is about the resilience of those enslaved individuals and the achievements of the community that they created and established in Alabama.

According to the creators and directors of the exhibit, it was important to begin where the story starts: in West Africa, with the men, women and children living their everyday lives. These individuals came from a variety of ethnic groups, religions and cultures, and even spoke different languages.

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