its current name is pluto in alabama. they chose its new name because of the melody. it is now part of the southern rail network that passes through the middle of the city. but it still retains its african identity. with these things i knew , i once again searched for the old house of a man named kojo. a person who keeps such memories under his pillow. how can he sleep if he has water? this film was recorded in 1928 by a young writer and cultural scholar named rosanil, who is considered the first black woman filmmaker. rozza worked throughout the deep south, performing dance and tradition adventures. black

recorded the skins. he usually memorized the songs he came across and sang them in his own voice. he met kojo several times and carefully recounted his memories in his own dialect. the handwritten version of the stories that he had told himself resulted in a book called the detention center for slaves. this book was supposed to be published in 193 but it was put on the back burner until it was published in 2018. well, now i want my new friends here.

let me introduce you , we are very happy i am here, i really can't believe that this is one of the biggest positive stories left in the history of america. i want to say that i am here to tell your story. we believe that this is a huge story. this story is really simple for us. and it's easy to work with jim delgado. jim is perhaps the best expert in america on shipwrecks. maybe he is the best in the whole world. hello to all i am very happy to see many familiar faces. we are now so equipped that we can do a very comprehensive and complete research. we understand

we realized that no one has ever researched this topic in the past. while everything was investigated and investigated, including the bayoucant rail accident in the 1990s. we also found a handwritten map from the land force engineering coast survey in 1889. this investigation showed that they were moving in the river in that direction, especially around telo mile island , but they did not find any carcasses or anything. they did not take any action in this area that we are investigating now. we are doing a research on a part of the river except for the part northerly above. no one

has done any research on it. i am very happy to be a member of this team. it has always been a pleasure for me to meet all of you and to return to you. i work from the bottom of my heart. i hope it is worthwhile. thank you very much thank you now that this story is being taken seriously, i don't want all the attention to be focused solely on the ship. not everything is summed up in the ship. i know that tourists are coming and many other things, but i don't know how to say what i mean. i want to think less about the ship. i know many people who tell me how they feel about their family. ask them how they feel about building a ship. they say they live in telegraph road, so i always have time to go.

as i drive, i imagine that the forest they entered for the first time was here, and here on the concrete it was written with red spray. it's very funny that the miher family lives right here , on the same street where i grew up , timothy street, miher street, when i go shopping , i might pass by them without knowing them, but someone very well taught them to keep their mouths shut and not say anything. they tell their children their voices it should not come out and no one should know anything. africa is completely surrounded by all kinds of heavy industries, the manufacturer

of pcb printed circuit boards is in africa, the lead smelter is in africa, it is the place of accumulation of dangerous waste, the ministry of defense is also in africa, and an international paper company is also here, maje. i have been here since the settlement of chemical houses related to the paper industry, now that the oil industry has come here. this is the current regionalization in africa. all these dark areas on the map are industrial areas. authorized areas for your industrial activities this city was considered very extensive. empty fields in the map are shown in gray color . there is a lot of vacant land inside the residential areas. when you have an empty field inside the residential context. well, you have to decide for them, the purpose of zoning is to make everything feel right in its place. if you ask someone who lives in africa, is the thing around them properly placed and used properly or not? the answer is that the battle over

zoning is a battle for destiny. finding the root cause of why these things settle here who decided to rent his land to this industry or his land to this one? he lived right across the street, his name was nate headwood. i used to go to the other side of the street, then you could go to the other side of the street. reverend hunter lived there. kafiz lived there, hayud's family lived there. you live that way. all that house and that neighborhood

were there. at night, we used to sit outside the window and just enjoy the night . i don't want you to come here. this is the place where i come and sit. i always come and sit here. if i don't catch crabs , i usually come and sit here. many people. who are trying to find clotilda, they think that the shipwreck is on the other side of the river, some people think that it is on this side of the river, but many. those who live in this neighborhood know that this side of the river is not a house. they believe that it is above. i mean, our whole history is here. all my life there have been factories around us. it was scott's paper factory. they were all here. who wants to wake up and see that

he is sitting on a historical land. but he has to feel the smell of chemicals in the factory. those who are like me feel that this is ours. we not a chemical factory. these framed documents are related to the taxes of this city. let me look at its history. it is from 1902. i think this is the oldest document related to our property taxes . it dates back to 1874. i think this one is a bit newer. ok, pat is related to the period after the liberation of the slaves, when they all managed to gather together in africa, that is , where they now call africa, they knew that they would not return to africa

, there was no way for them to return, so where did they choose he decided to go and talk to timothi mihar for a while provide them with land so that they can build the town. unexpectedly, timothy mihar came and sat on the trunk of a tree that he had just cut into pieces. i say now is the time for kojo to defend his people. talk, we really want the land , there was nothing left, i started crying, that's why i stopped working and looked at nakhodatimoti, he was sitting on the trunk of a tree and was splitting the trunk with his pocket knife. he raised it and saw kajo standing there and asked me, kajo , what is making you upset? i told him, captain. timothy, i am sad for my blood, he said, but since you have a good house, i am joamak. the people who stood behind me are residents of africa tun. we

are here today to tell the people whose work is the construction of oil pipelines and the nef company to stop their work. we will do whatever it takes to get them out. if the water quality is not good, then it is not. who is going to report this problem? when we were playing something like snow fell on the ground. i am cutting paper. being a paper factory, the wind brings them to school, we were playing with papers in the middle, they would die we did it here and there without knowing what it was. i am the pastor of the church. once we had funerals back to back. in the first year , i can say with courage that we had 15 to 20 funerals . and the cause of death is the same, there is no history. nakhda timothee, it was you who brought us here from our country, we

had land there, you turned us into slaves, and now they are freeing us, but we have no country, we have no land, i prepared a small survey and for everyone i sent and asked is there anyone who has cancer or knows someone who has cancer? more than 100 people answered this survey and returned it to me. each of these people has someone who has cancer. you are not mine anymore, why should i give you the land ? he says that they say we are buying a piece of land for ourselves.

i was 39 years old when my illness was diagnosed. well , we both survived. yes, that's right , we didn't know about this case, but do you remember that he said that i have prostate disease? yes , it's been a year and a half, i don't have prostate cancer anymore. yes, it's july. 3 years have passed since this issue, most of the land is owned by the state of alabama, but a large part of the land is not owned by this state. i wanted to show you the land ownership map in these areas. for example,

look here. when you look at a map of the greater delta, everything you see in lime green is a track owned by chip volks. when you have this information, you realize that the meher family is leasing land to companies. health problems for the residents of the area. a lot it is strange that the boundaries of injustice from 1860 to 2019 , in terms of who favors whom, are still the same lines and lines with the same people and have not changed, that is , the descendants of the mihar family are harming the descendants of the clotilda ship slaves.

if we know something about afrikatam is to know that when you lose your connection with the origin of your installation , if you don't know anything about your grandmother, if you stay away from your ancestors, you are constantly confused and as if you are lost in the world. you are lost and you have no way. so your relationship and connection with the past of your ancestors will make you stay connected somehow stay on track. this is a model of family heritage that can

be passed on to children. yes many black people don't know their identity, they don't know where they are from, they don't know who their ancestors were, they like to know these things, many of these things were done for a purpose, they did this so that no one would ever know the origin. what happened or that he doesn't understand who his ancestors were, but everyone wants to know something about their ancestors. you know you are on holy ground. how do i like the life i want to live in? do and define when you see that a region is working successfully

, it means that it is a holy place. i will divide the training and land cutting between them. they will have their land and will do their best. this is my grandmother's house. they built this house with their own hands. unfortunately, the rich merchants of chop saw it better to continue encroaching on the lands of black people. this is lewis carter. this land was bought in 1870. but people like lorenzo butt and others say a moment wait by telling the story , let's continue to deal with this situation. all the descendants of clodilda ship and their ancestors. the fact that they hold a festival by the babylon river and the fact that laurana woods makes people touch and touch the memory of their ancestors. i can say that it makes them stay united like a herd and completely occupy the earth

, i can't think of a better word. charlie is buried there, his wife maggie lewis and some of his siblings and some of his uncles are buried in that cemetery in plot 38. the wood factory has occupied a part of the cemetery. we were hit hard in life. some of we have the effect of this impact in the form of cancer, which is related to this impact. right? we don't try. to solve this problem, i think it should be the same as i say, goff lumber company came and took over lewis carters. i'm not really trying to solve this problem. it's really ridiculous. you deal with it and let it remain unresolved. or call it whatever you want. when you give a name to the disease, then we can prepare medicine for it. when you name it

, you can tell what to do. zoranil hudson died relatively anonymously in 1960 in a nameless grave in a separate cemetery. he was buried in eatonville, florida. a few years later, alice walker, who was impressed by hurston's book, was determined to find her . she found hererson's grave and

installed a suitable tombstone for her. now in the list of study books of american schools , the publication of the book detention of slaves for africa town means that kocho's voice is finally being heard. we are the descendants of the last slave ship that took our home. those people are no more. now it is us. we must be a part of this, so we are the descendants. should be about the events that there is something to say, i mean, this book was published, everything was published, but we did nothing for plato, go check plato carefully. it's like a forest. my whole point is that this is the first time that this group, whose members are from every single family of clotilla ships, has come together and formed something like a board of directors for the descendants association

, so when we do this and start talking in let's do things that are among our demands. we must have a statute . we have a lot of work to do. you are in that cemetery . count on us. do you understand? wait a minute. i agree, i completely agree , you know those people who live in that cemetery , they count on us, we were elected, we don't know if you understand what i mean, we don't do this alone, well, these are our ancestors who are working and our ancestors who set everyone in motion, if that ship is ever found and taken out of the water, it's not because someone found it, but it's time for it to be pulled out of the water. the archaeological work we do is like an inspection of a crime scene. right? we have clues, we are trying to help clarify the story the crime is discovered. it costs a lot of money to do this. there is no treasure in these ships. these people are more looking to forget than

to revive the memory of the slave trade. we must break the shame and silence. i am an investigative reporter and i came to try to find the ship because no one went to find it. i have been here for 20 years. i am and we are a little aware of the story, so i went to the city of mobile. in the documents related to william foster and timothy meher, something did not add up. foster wrote that they disembarked the slaves along the island. they set it on fire and drowned it 20 years after that incident , mihar gave an interview and said that we took the slaves off the ship and continued our movement towards the north until near bayokanut and set fire to the ship, mihar still after 20 years. he is afraid that he will be arrested and this crime is punishable by death. in my opinion, mihar did that interview and lied to send people to look for black peas and they couldn't find the ship. all influential people

are present in this story. you see, they don't want this ship to be found. so what is the assignment? you play some people and tell them it is not here. at this time you waste the last slave ship in the base. it was a long sea journey. the tugboat refused to go to mabil river. as clatilda was sailing across the river from mobile, the clock on the old spanish tower struck exactly 11 o'clock , and the watchman's voice echoed across the marsh. it's 11 o'clock and everything is lined up in clatiletta until nightfall, heading straight for tuelo island. she was taken to a lonely and strange place. i called jocelyn davis to inform all

the descendants of clotilda's slaves that they found clotilda. we are meeting with them now. i had just finished my meeting, this news will be spread around the world today, we had talked about this, we have to make sure that the work is done , not just tomorrow or next week or 10 years from now, but once and for all. i want to talk and tell everyone to be fully informed i'm getting ready to talk to gary i'm trying to talk to all the descendants yes we're ready i'm jocelyn from africom the first person to touch the last american slave ship in 160 years he is a newspaper reporter and a man who owns a repair shop , we have photos and documents, we found him. good threads he went down and found a piece of the ship , so to say that it was not the right thing to do because we should not have interfered in the archaeological work. we came back

and did the research in the same place because we were able to find it in one of the places that was our priority. he was himself. you know, i am proud of the role i had in this work because i know what value this work has for africa. i think that is great. the first time before. i remember pulling something out of clotilda was a very exciting moment , at least it was for me. he said, "wow, this is a piece of the clodilda, the last ship that transported the physical bodies of black people to america as a commodity, but now here in my hands, you know, we had the entire slave community that still has a lot to do with this." you know, i think the first thing that comes to mind. it turned out that it really belonged to kojuolo lewis, who spent most of his life in love with his homeland. this is the first ship that was found in america. yes they

have never found any sacrifice in american affairs . right here this is a wonderful date is it is a real date. there is something you have to go with him because if you let him go, he will go and you will not be able to find him. do you know we just found a huge and ancient dinosaur. no one knew that clotilda's ship was there. we have to do it right with him. when i hear this simple sentence that we found, i get excited from the bottom of my heart. that today i can have this experience live, it's really breathtaking for me. we never had the opportunity to touch our history closely. they never valued it. so this is the first time that a group of people in action they can say where they are originally from. i have no idea where my african ancestors came from. this

group can do this and for once bring a sense of pride to the african american community in armaghan and be able to say that this is the reality and this is us, these people are a part of us, we are a part of them and it is not necessary anymore. that we are more confused than this. yes, this happens in practice. it happened and we are approved as a community of african americans.

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