this is africatown.africans brought on the "clotilda." joycelyn davis has organized festivals to honor africatown's founders, one of whom was her great-great-great-grandfather, charlie lewis. last february she took us to the street he lived on, called lewis quarters. so, pretty much everyone on this street can trace their lineage back to charlie lewis-- >> davis: yes. everyone here is related. >> cooper: wow. >> davis: yeah. >> cooper: lewis and some of the others got jobs at a nearby sawmill, owned by timothy meaher, the same man responsible for enslaving them. >> davis: i mean, they worked for, like, a dollar a day. and so, they saved up their money to buy land. >> cooper: cudjo lewis also worked at the meaher's sawmill. this rare film shows him in 1928. by then he was in his 80's and one of the "clotilda's" last living survivors. he helped found this church in africatown, the same church his descendants still attend today. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ after emancipation it seemed so unlikely that a group of freed slaves c