Investigating The Crime Of The Slave Ship Clotilda

[@Virgo_god0972]

It’s sad. I’m 49 years old, I’m at this moment in a greyhound bus from stlouis to mobile. The bus driver and I were talking and he mentioned something about a ship being found down in Mobile a few years ago & his words sparked my interest. I told him I’d Google it. I’m riding on this bus getting this historical information about my people for the first time in my life. I’m extremely emotional right now. I’m about to make it my business to go to Africatown see touch and talk to the descendants of the last slave ship. Too much

[@joshuajones1319]

.....poor thing Yall believing a narrative for what reason exactly..? Literally, why are you believing this nonsense...?

[@noahstringer]

its sickening that the maher family kept, and still have, the only private property for MILES, within feet from where the ships remains were found. no one can convince me that family was unaware there was a sunken ship feet away from their river cabin. That family has more land in the area than you would ever imagine. Chippewa Lakes LLC. The damn state park on causeway is named after that family, its disgusting

[@jamesbraggs3621]

​@@joshuajones1319I am a decendant of the Clotilda and I've hung around Africa Town 80 years and know our culture and go hug the tall grave stone of Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis every chance I get in the old slave grave yard he was born circa 1847 and died 1935 he was the last true slave to die.why would you doubt or condemn a people's history when you know nothing about it or have been on location.in our culture back in the 40s and 50s the elder women ages 90-105-112 would build a camp fire at night.and we as children would circle around the fire and would wou tell us about the brutal enslavement their and ancestors and themselves what they went through.they also told us about how many of us will still have a plantation psychosis and are called coconuts ( Brown outside and white inside) you are one of them and a disgrace to our people

[@lab5896]

Wonderful lecture. I have been to Alabama three times. On my fourth trip, I will make it a point to visit Africatown. I just returned from Ghana and I am pumped to learn more about my people/history. I must purchase your book.

[@beverleybrangman2191]

Such a first class historical presentation. I would love to see the movie e, thank you for the presenters sacrifice and all who had a part in exposing this terrible crime against our people. Such arrogance and defiance of law is tragic. The powers that be are culpable for not bringing justice, and the people of Africa are also responsible. Thank you for opening our eyes, and hearts, and dispelling the darkness over this crime. God must be praised for exposing this crime

[@latoyaguest793]

Thank you so much for posting this lecture, and thank you Dr. Robertson, for sharing your life's work with myself and the world.!🎉🎉❤❤ I love history, and I have never stopped seeking information about the past as well as our hidden past as an African/Native American. The wealth of knowledge you have presented today is really inspiring. I am going to pass this along to any and everyone I can so that they remember, "seek and you shall find." You do always have to wait on a book or a movie to be handed to you in order to know or understand history, the world, or who you are.

[@lynnemorrow4526]

This is fascinating! Really appreciated the language components in the research

[@wilapblkhistory8310]

Great! 👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏾✊🏽

[@keithcampbell2579]

Jamaica 🇯🇲 has a Hero slave descendant called (coajo) he was a runaway maroon warrior that was also defeating the British soldiers and their hideaway were the mountains in Jamaica 🇯🇲

[@ERICKATAMANI-gr4pw]

Cudjoe

[@jessiebrandon2040]

God bless the mother of this young woman, we are in need of more black women teaching their children about history and how to write after listen a God favored me up on her life forever we need the count of the 42 generation of because the slave masters children are saying they had nothing to do with what their parents did to the black people AFRICA descendants so Jesus came down to 42 we need to think about those generation and we need to be able to put it together to prove that they are yet living off of our money and they your children are responsible for what their parents to them like to have all the money in their pocket I hope you can do something with this we need an answer we can't make our case unless we can come up with that answer and I know it's there we have some brilliant minds people in our nation of AFRICA

[@Bsmith-gb2ru]

I’m very interested in this story because my third great grand mother was named Clotilde I’m doing research on her now.i told my son about her name and he said Ma that’s the name of the last slave ship from Africa! So I’m investigating why her name was Clotilde. She was listed as a mulatto in the ancestry records. If any one is interested in helping me with this I’d be grateful . Also she was a midwife.

[@TheMarinersMuseum]

Wow, what a fantastic family connection - we wish you the best of luck in your search. Thanks for watching the program!

[@Hamir-o8d]

now i get the name she was calling,it's KOJO

[@ERICKATAMANI-gr4pw]

It’s cudjoe not kojo

[@ERICKATAMANI-gr4pw]

Cudjoe is a name given to one of the sons of the ewe tribes… I would ask an elder from the ewe tribe who were part of the old OYO empire. And I presume the African slave masters could not write the names of the slaves hence they just called them by the town they were captured. So the white slavers who later bought them wrote names given to them by the black slavers. Also remember that the slavers were given some concoctions to drink that made them unable to remember their past. There’s a well they were made to drink from before embarking on their journey.