The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
Dr. Olivia Hooker is a 101-year-old survivor of the horrific racist attack on the African-American community in Tulsa, Okla., known as the Tulsa race riot. To this day, she remembers the devastating, traumatic experience of rioters coming onto her family’s property on May 31, 1921. Throughout U.S
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
The man known as Cudjo Lewis (ca. 1841-1935) was one of the last survivors of the Clotilda, the last recorded slave ship to the United States, which arrived in Mobile on Sunday July 8, 1860, illegally and under cover of night, 52 years after the country had abolished the international slave trade. Cudjo helped found […]
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
Africatown (also spelled AfricaTown and African Town) is a small Mobile neighborhood established by many of the people who arrived on the Clotilda, the last documented slave ship to reach the United States. Co-founder Cudjo Lewis achieved notoriety when he was interviewed about his experiences in Africa, his journey to Mobile on the ship, and […]
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
The enslavement of African people in the Americas by the nations and peoples of Western Europe, created the economic engine that funded modern capitalism. Therefore
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
Zora Neale Hurston's searing book about Cudjo Lewis, brought to Alabama aboard the Clotilda—the last known US slave ship—took nearly 90 years to find a publisher.
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
Osborne P. Anderson was an African American abolitionist and author who accompanied John Brown on the raid of Harper's Ferry in 1859. Click the link to learn more.
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves
