From Clotilda to Community: The History of Mobile, Alabama’s Africatown

FAIN: BH-288140-22

Spring Hill College (Mobile, AL 36608-1780)
Ryan Noble (Project Director: February 2022 to present)
Joe'l Lewis Billingsley (Co Project Director: August 2022 to present)

Two one-week workshops for 72 school teachers to explore the history of the slave ship Clotilda and the Africatown community in Mobile, Alabama, from the Civil War to today.

Spring Hill College (SHC) seeks funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for “From Clotilda to Community: The History of Mobile, Alabama’s Africatown,”a five-day Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop to immerse K-12 educators of all grades in the history of the 110 survivors of the slave ship Clotilda, their descendants, and the post-Civil War community of Mobile, Alabama’s Africatown.

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