Historic Preservationists Arrive in Mobile to Confirm If Uncovered Wreckage Is The Clotilda
Divers, Researchers, Historians Are Expected to Announce Whether This Is The Sunken Slave Ship During A Community Meeting Next Week in Africatown.
- Mobile, AL (1888PressRelease) March 01, 2018 - The Mobile County Training School Alumni Association and Africatown-C.H.E.S.S. will hold a 10:00 AM press conference on Friday, March 2, 2018, at the Robert L. Hope / Plateau Community Center to announce the arrival of historic preservationists from around the state and nation who will investigate the possible finding of the Clotilda slave ship in the coming days.
Officials from the African American History Museum in Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Slave Wreck Project, the National Park Service and the Alabama Historical Commission are expected to be on hand to discuss their probe of the remnants of a 1860s-era ship uncovered by Ben Raines, a local journalist with AL.com. Raines announced in a January 2018 article on AL.com that the wreckage he discovered could be remnants of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to have brought kidnapped Africans as human cargo to the U.S. in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. History records that the ship's captain burned and sunk the boat in the waters of the Mobile River delta to hide it from authorities because bringing Africans to the U.S. for slavery was illegal at the time.
In the days after their investigation, the preservation officials will announce their findings to the public during a community meeting in Africatown, which was founded by the Clotilda survivors. The meeting takes place Wednesday, March 7, 2018, from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM, also at the Hope Community Center in Plateau, located at 850 Edwards Street, Mobile, AL 36610.
Researchers and historians expected to be in attendance at the community meeting include:
• Paul Gardullo, National Museum of African American History and Culture: Curator. Also Director of the Center for the Study of Global Slavery & active team member of The Slave Wrecks Project
• Steve Lubkemann, The Slave Wrecks Project/George Washington University: Professor
• Mary Elliott, National Museum of African American History and Culture: Museum Specialist
• Liz Smith-Incer, National Park Service: Mississippi Field Office Director for the Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program
• Dave Conlin, National Park Service: Chief of the Center for Submerged Resources
• David Morgan, National Park Service: Center Director for the Southeast Archeological Center
• Lisa Jones, Alabama Historical Commission: Executive Director / Alabama State Historical Preservation Office: State Historic Preservation Officer
• Stacye Hathorn, Alabama Historical Commission, part of the Alabama State Historical Preservation Office: State Archaeologist
• Dorothy Walker, Alabama Historical Commission, part of the Alabama State Historical Preservation Office: Black Heritage Council Liaison
WHO: Mobile County Training School Alumni Association and Africatown~C.H.E.S.S., a community- based organization in Mobile, Alabama
WHAT: Press conference introducing team of historians, divers and preservationists in Mobile to investigate the possible finding of the Clotilda slave ship in the Mobile River Delta.
WHEN: Friday, March 2, 2018, at 10:00 AM
WHERE: The James L. Hope / Plateau Community Center
850 Edwards Street | Mobile, AL 36610
WHY: To determine whether the remains of a 1860s-era ship found in the Mobile River delta are those of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to have arrived in the U.S., in Mobile, Alabama.
About the Mobile County Training School Alumni Association
The Mobile County Training School Alumni Association is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and promoting the history and achievements of the MCTS family, and its descendants, by documenting and recording for posterity the accomplishments and experiences of its family by awarding scholarships and publishing the Alumni experience to encourage others.
About Africatown~C.H.E.S.S.
C.H.E.S.S. exists to ensure that the Africatown community in Mobile, Alabama, is Clean, Healthy, Educated, Safe, & Sustainable. Through its partnership with the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, the HBCU-CBO Gulf Coast Equity Consortium, and the Kellogg Foundation, the organization implements strategies and best practices that improve the quality of life in Africatown and the Gulf Coast region's most underserved areas.
Learn more at http://www.mctswhippets.org/ | http://www.africatown-chess.org/
For more information contact:
Joe Womack, Africatown~C.H.E.S.S. Executive Director
Phone: 251 404-9558
Email: jwomack ( @ ) africatown-chess dot org; jnwomack1 ( @ ) yahoo dot com;
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