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Abdul Aziz, Welcome to Africatown, 2022, Courtesy of the artist

 

Union Missionary Baptist Church

Africatown

 

1. Abdul Aziz, Welcome to Africatown, 2022, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artis

Joycelyn Davis is co-founder and Vice-President of the Clotilda Descendants Association and organizer of the Spirit of Our Ancestors Festival in Mobile, Alabama

2. Abdul Aziz, Generations, 2022, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

Veda Tunstall and her mother, Vernetta Henson, are descendants of enslaved people aboard the Clotilda.

3. Abdul Aziz, Golden Time of Day, 2022, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

Emmett Lewis, a barber, is a descendant of Cudjo Lewis (b. 1841, Benin, Africa – d. 1935, Mobile, Alabama, USA), who was one of the last survivors of the Clotilda.

4. Abdul Aziz, Straight Outta Africatown, 2022, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

Major Joe Womack is a founder of the Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation. He was born in historic Africatown and attended Mobile County Training School (MCTS), the first public high school for African Americans in Alabama.

5. Abdul Aziz, Africatown, 2022, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

6. Abdul Aziz, Heritage and Pride, 2022, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

7. Abdul Aziz, Altars, 2022, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

 

Learn more about Abdul Aziz and 'Reclaiming Echoes'

 

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