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Africatown, Alabama : The Descendants of the last slave ship to have illegally entered Alabama(vids)

Posted by theone on 8/19/2026, 2:42 am

Indeed nobody talks about this "unique" Black community in America which still live in one specific area of Alabama(Africatown).

Well, these are NOT the Gullah and Geechee people of South Carolina. These are NOT the Creoles of Louisiana. These are NOT the AAs who escaped to Canada and built Africville in Nova Scotia. These are NOT the descendants of the Caribbean community who migrated to America in mid 19th century. These are NOT the enslaved African Americans who escaped south to Mexico from Texas, drawn by the nation's abolition of slavery in 1829 and its refusal to sign fugitive slave treaties. These are NOT the 19th and early 20th centuries free African Americans and liberated slaves who moved to West Africa to establish "Liberia", organized primarily by the American Colonization Society. NO.

Actually these AAs are a community of the "survivors" of the last slave ship "clotilda" that entered North America "illegally" via Alabama in 1860, just one year before the civil war. The boat was burned down in order to erase the evidence of this now illegal traffic. Anyway, what is important to note here was that this last African survivors have had a serious hard time to "adjust" with the AA slaves who were born in America hundreds of years before they arrived in this last slave ship in 1860. What a mess

?? Can you imagine the hell they have caught from the native Black slaves?? Yet these survivors managed to build their own town in Alabama that still exist today, known as Africatown. Really Amazing!!

Re: Africatown, Alabama : The Descendants of the last slave ship to have illegally entered Alabama(vids)

Posted by theone on 8/19/2026, 8:59 am, in reply to "Africatown, Alabama : The Descendants of the last slave ship to have illegally entered Alabama(vids)"

I forgot to add that this AA community of the last slave ship survivors in Africatown, Alabama, has absolutely nothing in common historically with the Black Seminoles who are a group of mixed African and Native American descent. They formed from escaped enslaved people and free blacks who allied with the Seminole nation in Spanish Florida starting in the early 1700s, sharing communities, intermarrying, and fighting alongside them in the Seminole Wars.

Also the ppl of Africatown, Alabama, have nothing to do historically with "Black Indians" in Oklahoma often and legally referred to as freedmen, descendants of people of African descent who were enslaved or allied with the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole). They moved to present-day Oklahoma during the forced removals along the Trail of Tears in the 1830s.

TheOne, you forgot one group… .

Posted by Les on 8/19/2026, 9:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Africatown, Alabama : The Descendants of the last slave ship to have illegally entered Alabama(vids)"

TheOne, you have become a fully fledged African-American scholar. But you forgot one significant group. Indigenous Black Americans — The Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts, who fed the Europeans at Plymouth.

https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/powwow-info
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I forgot to add that this AA community of the last slave ship survivors in Africatown, Alabama, has absolutely nothing in common historically with the Black Seminoles who are a group of mixed African and Native American descent. They formed from escaped enslaved people and free blacks who allied with the Seminole nation in Spanish Florida starting in the early 1700s, sharing communities, intermarrying, and fighting alongside them in the Seminole Wars.

Also the ppl of Africatown, Alabama, have nothing to do historically with "Black Indians" in Oklahoma often and legally referred to as freedmen, descendants of people of African descent who were enslaved or allied with the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole). They moved to present-day Oklahoma during the forced removals along the Trail of Tears in the 1830s.

Re: TheOne, you forgot one group… .

Posted by theone on 8/20/2026, 1:39 am, in reply to "TheOne, you forgot one group… ."

Soo true, Les, I've completely forgot to add the Wampanoag tribe up in Massachussetts. Good point, Sir. I'm well aware of their existance, in fact I've posted a video about the Wampanoag tribe in LLC a few years back.

LOL, now guess what other group of AAs I forgot to add as well??? Indeed, the Black Hebrew Israelites a religious community of several thousand African Americans have migrated to Israel from Chicago starting in the late 1960s. Led by Chicago native Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, the group have settled in the southern Israeli desert town of Dimona, where the core of their community still resides today.

So yes, the Wampanoag tribe of Massachussetts and the Black Hebrews of Israel have nothing in common with the AA survivors of the last slave ship that entered illegally to Alabama in 1860.

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Posted by Les on 8/20/2026, 7:17 pm, in reply to "Re: TheOne, you forgot one group… ."

Yes, I remember we have discussed the Wampanoag on here, TheOne. And of course we’ve talked about the Hebrew Israelites, on LLC. I was invited to move to Dimona with them when I was in my twenties, but decided against it for practical reasons. Thanks for the eye-opening information you always bring to the forum, bro.

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