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Podcast: Salvation South
Episode: From the Wreckage of the Clotilda to the Community Of Africatown
Description: There is a very significant community down on Alabama’s Mobile Bay called Africatown — established after the Civil War by formerly enslaved people, who were brought to America aboard the illegal slave ship Cotilda, the last to land on this country’s shores. Over time, Africatown became one of the largest African American-governed communities in America.
Salvation South editor Chuck Reece has the story in this week’s commentary.