Perspectives: Clotilda

[@monicacall7532]

I first learned about the Clotilda in a National Geographic History Magazine. Soon after Zore Neale Hurston’s magnificent book “Baracoon” (the place close to the ocean where the recently captured Africans were kept before they boarded ships bound for the American South) finally came out-80+ years after she wrote it after spending a lot of time with Kudjo Lewis, one of the few enslaved people from the Clotilda that was still alive in the 1930’s. Hurston wrote the story in Kudjo’s dialect which adds to the immediacy of his story. From the day that the female Dahomey warriors came and kidnapped him to the time he finished telling them his story, and especially what life was like in the “Middle Passage” where the enslaved people were chained and lived under the most inhumane of conditions. The Meaher Brothers and their skipper friend thought that sneaking enslaved people into the US, even while the punishment was death, through blockades and other obstacles was great fun. They never once stopped to think about their “cargo”. To me this was the most despicable aspect of a tragic story. I’m glad that the story of Africatown is finally being told. It’s the very least we can do to honor the African Americans who were brought here against their wills.

[@Will-po2tx]

They were not african americans, they were and still are Africans

[@margaretmary-dj1ps]

A M E N ! ... TYJ !

[@cassiefriedman1446]

Very sad story 😞 but I do enjoy history

[@brandycoke713]

The owner former owner of the Clotilda ship is still and real estate owners they should be sharing some of their wealth with the descendants of the slaves

[@adamlangdon2245]

Very interesting video. This stuff blows my mind.

[@altonpaige2388]

One word Reparations!

[@greencase]

Start with Africa.

[@belleame4671]

You'll never get that

[@kainyjoseph7727]

You can’t get no reparations if you categorized as black or African American because it don’t ties you to the land… only way to get reparations is to do your genealogy and claim your tribe to start with. And it has nothing to do with black or African,it all comes down to the American Indian. And I bet you are the Indian in your family if your ancestors always been here

[@margaretmary-dj1ps]

Or "RECONCILIATIONS" ❤

[@1nervie]

This was mentioned by one of the ladies of the Democratic Convention conclave and I had to find out about the schooner as the last Slave Ship 1860 with 100 men, women and children.

[@stevarnamik2233]

Absolutely compelling

[@decentwoodz5172]

Absolutely Cap

[@stevarnamik2233]

@@decentwoodz5172 thats cap

[@vileanthomas1442]

Who are the ancestors that owned the Clotilda ?and where are They?

[@brandycoke713]

The man who owned the ship name was Timothy Meaher and his Descendants the Meaher family still live in Alabama

[@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr]

The wreckage of the ship the Clotilda was discovered not so long ago. It was the very last slave ship to America, it returned to the US in July of 1860 with about 150 sub Saharan slaves from the kingdom of Dahomey. "For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor, significant international trade with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Vodoo with the large festival of the Annual Customs of Dahomey which involved large scale human sacrifice. They traded prisoners, whom they captured during wars and raids, and exchanged them with Europeans and Americans for goods such as knives, bayonets, firearms, fabrics, and spirits."

[@brandycoke713]

How do you really know that where is the proof

[@greencase]

@@brandycoke713 do some research idiot.

[@waydetahtawy319]

@@brandycoke713 Yes it's true ... Do research

[@syourke3]

So they enslaved their fellow Africans and fold them to the white slavers? Yeah, that sounds real. The rest sounds mostly like BS.

[@lisajackson1476]

Reparations is needed now....

[@brandycoke713]

If camera's was invented in 1816 and the ship left Africa in 1860 why isn't there any pictures of this event like the slaves walking on the ship and a picture of them inside the ship in chains I always saw drawings and sketches of slaves in chains and who was the person that drew the pictures

[@ladyvirgo3893]

There are no pictures because the slave trade was abolished fifty years before this journey. It was punishable by death. He destroyed it to get rid of the evidence. I'm sure if the Lewis descendents have knowledge of this. The descendants of family who owned the ship live in Alabama also. They need to be interviewed too. Family history never lost

[@VickyGoss]

What was the name of the man who set it on fire? Did everyone survive? I hope Noone drown or died that was on that ship.

[@teffanymalone7121]

Where is the rest of the boats ? And can we do our own examination.

[@lottiespence2614]

So the majority of BLACK Ppl believed this!?! Really!?!

[@ustand2186]

How are all the descendents in Afrika town still speaking their native Afrikan language? Honoring their own culture. I know you're shocked about how your ancestors behaved. The truth is yall haven't changed much@!

[@elizabethcarvalho3168]

This historic event hurts my heart so much... the way these people in this world have made history by doing such horrific acts,, slave ships, cult leaders with mass suicidal murder, the holocaust, so on amd so on....I am very bothered by this ship and what it's history is with treating humans like nothing, inhumane and benefited from the Africans body's, hands their time and took everything from these Africans and have even taken pieces of AFRICATOWN! they should be repuration for AFRICATOWN to restore it's history and put it back to how it was when the Africans made it with prayers, sweat, tears and happiness..preserve AFRICATOWN for those ancestors buried there because their souls are alive, they should help fix the resting place of the ancestors that founded AFRICATOWN...Let them keep this, have this so they can continue a legacy and noone that isn't african American yet to benefit from their present and future....I am with Africa town 💯% I always hope and pray for the entire town and the descendants 🙏🏼🫂🥺😔❤️

[@HarMageddo]

I've read about this story

[@elizabethcarvalho3168]

Start with cudjo lewis's stories on them movie clips

[@syourke3]

Why scuttle the ship?

[@ericdillon7467]

How come the Whitehouse isn't set up like a plantation in real life if it that old kind of Kamasutra time?

[@buntingy]

2022

[@brandycoke713]

So the owners would feed the slaves sometimes or didn't feed them at all that's why they was dying they died of starvation.

[@buntingy]

William foster

[@ericdillon7467]

Remember romance fist lady Dolia?

[@speculatorkiwi9783]

from Nigeria

[@ericdillon7467]

Well if the Marines are telling me to come out of the house how many years ago? Look at the laser guns, keep watching in real life, ya'll are luck your turn was over! Lol

[@ericdillon7467]

Well is our wedding jumping over a broom this time?

[@waydetahtawy319]

⚖️

[@ericdillon7467]

You act like we haven't gotten married alot of times with me like this because we love eachother and my mother is rich.... lol

[@ericdillon7467]

See why my wife gets sooooooo mad that I'm not treated this way? That's what we are taught is romantic when you won't let us have a marriage like normal in the Whitehouse

[@mrkobayashimusic]

Logic says the story is made up. A. One story says it's not just the bet that he could smoke one slaves, but he wanted to do it because they were cheaper than the ones that were already on the land... Which seems odd considering you have to get a crew together to take the journey to Africa on 2-3 month voyage 1-way. You have to have enough supplies for each crew member and the slaves you purchase to feed them for the 3-month journey home. B. It is impossible to take the same route to and from Africa because the ocean's current wouldn't allow it. It would have been like going the wrong way on an escalator. Quadrupling the length of time of travel. C. The US was the ship-building capital of the world. The slaves themselves built the ships. Chances are, that ship was built in America and it never left America.

[@FreedomBiafra]

Your logic is off

[@mrkobayashimusic]

@@FreedomBiafra feel free to explain.

[@historyonthego]

What are you talking about it’s absolutely rubbish, many ships before this had already circumnavigate the world Magellan who was a Portuguese sailor went around the world via South America across the Pacific into the Indian Ocean. Sir Francis Drake also went across the world right round the world. Many slave ships have been recorded in history in archive stretching from England Portugal Spain France Holland. There is plenty plenty evidence records shipping accounts insurance documents and sales of goods that was taking a ship to prove that this trade went on for too many centuries.

[@mrkobayashimusic]

@@historyonthego yeah but the timeline doesn't add up. Journeys were 3 months one-way. A lot of ships never completed their missions. Then you had to have the ships to not only bring the slaves but you have to have the ones to bring the European families. It's non-sense. When Columbus landed on this land he described black people already here. He actually had African navigators because Africans had already made the trip multiple times decades prior. There's a reason why the oldest fossils on this continent are of Africa decent.

[@mrkobayashimusic]

@@historyonthego Magellan never circumnavigated the Earth. 🤦🏿‍♂️ Legend says he tried but he never completed the mission cause he got killed on the journey. It took over 13 months just to get to South America. Now make that make sense... He didn't make stops along the way... he's in the ocean allegedly with 4 other ships and 270 men. But at the end of the journey, 1 ship with 18 survivors remained.🤦🏿‍♂️ How much food and resources must you have available on a ship to keep hundreds-to-thousands of slaves they claimed to have bought/stolen from Africa, PLUS the other men and women that help them navigate and keep the slaves in line? Look up the size of these ships and make it make sense. Keep in mind, they have to make money off these slaves. They are no good to them dead, sick, injured, and unable to perform. If it took 5 ships to have enough resources for 270 men, we're looking at an average of 54 men per boat... And that's just to work the ship, navigate, cook, repair, etc. Now add slaves and more resources. How many can you fit in the boat?