fulanigirlJun 30, 2025
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Clotilda #Africatown #KamauSadiki #AfricanAmericanHistory
Those who follow me know I don’t usually attempt to educate on African American history. There are a few talented members of the community who enjoy that and do it as service. I’m going to make a small exception in this thread to my usual refusal, to talk about the last slave ship that entered the US and also boost some of my work. 1/6
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#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Clotilda #Africatown #KamauSadiki #AfricanAmericanHistory I think @Deglassco may have written about the Clotilda, a wrecked slave ship. Two white men in Mobile AL made a bet that they could get some kidnapped Africans and forcibly transport them to the US in 1860, about 50 years after the importation of Africans for the purpose of enslavement was banned. 2/6
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#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Clotilda #Africatown #KamauSadiki #AfricanAmericanHistory They succeeded in bringing 100 kidnapped and enslaved Africans to Mobile. The people were sold and the ship was burned to cover up their wrong doing. When the civil war ended those Africans had only been here for 5 years. They knew who they were and remembered where they came from. Some of them founded Africatown outside of Mobile AL and their descendants still live there today. 3/6
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#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Clotilda #Africatown #KamauSadiki #AfricanAmericanHistory A few months back, I was fortunate to meet the director of the film entitled DESCENDANT which tells the story of the Clotilda, its people and the saga of trying to locate and salvage the Clotilda wreck, which was believed to be the the Mobile River. Divers With a Purpose (DWP) assisted with locating and recovering the wreck. 4/6
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#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Clotilda #Africatown #KamauSadiki #AfricanAmericanHistory The film heavily features DWP diver Kamau Sadiki, who has participated on teams working on the recovery of 5 wrecked slave ships. Through some hard work, tenacity, and a stroke of good luck we were able to interview Kamau on our podcast. He has an emotionally moving connection with our ancestors lost in the enslavement era, and talked about the importance of remembering them. 5/6
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#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Clotilda #Africatown #KamauSadiki #AfricanAmericanHistory
Try to watch the film. Its on Netflix. And if you can listen to Kamau on our Youtube channel, on Spotify, or if you don’t want to be tracked and targeted for ads, you can listen on our website. He drops some serious knowledge. 6/6
https://nubiantigerspodcast.com/recovering-our-history-from-deep-waters/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQeXIMcs4zo
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/nubian-tigers/episodes/Recovering-Our-History-From-Deep-Waters-e34rovc
Recovering Our History From Deep Waters - Nubian Tigers Podcast

We are in another cycle where racists are trying to suppress African American history. It’s very important that Black folks do their genealogy and understand their family lines. Although we mentioned genealogy in a previous show, we haven’t talked about it in depth.. By chance, we met the director of a film called DESCENDANT which ... Recovering Our History From Deep Waters

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