Africatown Heritage House
Home to Clotilda: The Exhibition, a 2,500 square foot, multi-sensory, landmark exhibit space, dense with compelling stories and images of the 110 remarkable men, women, and children who were taken from West Africa under the cover of night in the summer of 1860 aboard a U.S. slave ship called the Clotilda.
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The Clotilda made its illegal voyage back to Mobile Bay 52 years after the international slave trade was outlawed. The exhibition tells the long-untold story of the displaced Africans who survived enslavement and their descendants and how they came to establish the tight-knit, independent community of Africatown. The pieces of the Clotilda that have been recovered from its sunken wreckage are also on display.