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Podcast: Play tells Clotilda story

   January 31, 2023

The Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, has long been a legend. The ship brought the slaves into Mobile Bay illegally in 1860 and was burned and scuttled in an attempt to destroy the evidence.

Some 100 descendants of the survivors carried by the Clotilda still live in Africatown, outside of Mobile.

Terrence Spivey was commissioned Clotilda Descendants Association to write and produce a play inspired by the Clotilda slave ship story. “An Ocean in My Bones” premiered at the 2022 Spirit of Our Ancestors festival in the Africatown.

A reworked version of the play will make its debut this weekend at the Festival. “An Ocean in My Bones” will be presented 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 and Sunday, Feb. 5, at the Festival to be held at the Mobile County Training School, 800 Whitley Street, Mobile, AL.

Terrance Spivey was my guest on “Real News with Rick Outzen” this morning.

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