Africatown, Alabama One Place Study

Date: 1872
Location: Africatown, Mobile, Alabama, United States
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies Black_Heritage Alabama

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Contents 1 Africatown, Alabama One Place Study 1.1 Name 1.2 Geography 1.3 History 1.3.1 Churches 1.3.2 Cemeteries 1.4 Population 1.5 Notable 1.5.1 People 1.5.2 Media 2 Sources

Africatown, Alabama One Place Study

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Name

Also known as Plateau (as seen on census records).

Geography

Continent: North America

Country: United States

State/Province: Alabama

County: Mobile

GPS Coordinates: 30.735278, -88.058611

Elevation: 10.0 m or 32.8 feet

History

The Africatown Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 2012.^[1]

Churches

• Historic Union Missionary Baptist Church, c. 1869 (originally Old Landmark Baptist church & evolved from Stone Street Baptist Church)

Cemeteries

• Plateau Cemetery and category 2,688 total memorials.

Population

Notable

People

Bronze sculpture of co-founder, Cudjoe Lewis

• Cudjoe Lewis - one of the founders of Africatown^[2]

Media

• A local Mobile TV news program produced a program, "AfricaTown, USA", about the settlement and its history.^[3]
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Finding Your Roots, Season 4, Episode 9: "Southern Roots"^[4][5][6]
• Natalie S. Robertson's book The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, U.S.A.: Spirit of Our Ancestors
• Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"^[7]
• On The Media interviewed residents of Africatown, Clotilda descendants, and historians.^[8]
• The Extinction Tapes^[9]
• [Africatown Project Locates Graves of Clotilde Survivors http://blog.al.com/live/2010/01/africatown_project_locates_gra.html]

Sources

1. ↑ "Weekly List of Actions Taken On Properties: 12/03/12 Through 12/07/12". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
2. ↑ Willet, Henry (1993). "Mobile Community Holds On To Unique African Heritage". Alabama Center for Traditional Culture. Retrieved February 28, 2008.
3. ↑ "AfricaTown, USA". The Library of Congress: Local Legacies. Retrieved February 28, 2008.
4. ↑ Henry Louis Gates, Jr's Finding Your Roots, Season 4, Episode 9 (December 12, 2017), PBS, sections on Questlove's ancestors.
5. ↑ Boyd, Jared (December 18, 2017). "PBS show reveals Questlove descended from last known slave ship, which landed in Alabama". The Birmingham News. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
6. ↑ "The Last Cargo". The Pittsburgh Post. April 15, 1894. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
7. ↑ Michael Herriott, "New Zora Neale Hurston Book Will Tell Story of the Last Survivor of the US Slave Trade", The Root, December 20, 2017.
8. ↑ "Africatown". On The Media. May 18, 2018. WNYC Studios.
9. ↑ "The Alabama Pigtoe Mussel". The Extinction Tapes. November 4, 2019. BBC Radio 4.