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AfricaTown is the site in Mobile,Alabama,along the Gulf Coast where the last cargo of Africans landed in 1860.Their landing marked the last recorded attempt to import Africans to the United States for the purpose of slavery.
The history of AfricaTown,USA,originated in Ghana,West Africa,near the present city of Tamale in 1859.The tribes of Africa were engaged in civil war,and the prevailing tribes sold the members of the conquered tribes into slavery.The village of the Tarkbar tribe near the city of Tamale was raided by Dahomey warriors,and the survivors of the raid were taken to Whydah,now the People's Republic of Benin,and put up for sale.The captured tribesmen were sold for $100 each at Whydah.They were taken to the United States on board the schooner Clotilde,under the command of Maine Capt.William Foster.Foster had been hired by Capt.Timothy Meaher,a wealthy Mobile shipper and shipyard owner,who had built the schooner Clotilde in Mobile in 1856.
in the 1850s,there was much talk of reopening the African slave trade,which had been outlawed since 1808.It was in this setting that Meaher and Foster planned the Trans-Atlantic voyage of the Clotilde for the purpose of bringing an illegal cargo of slaves back to Mobile.Captain Foster entered Mobile Harbor on the night of July 9,1860.He transferred his slave cargo to a riverboat and sent them up into the canebrake to hide them.He then burned his schooner and sunk it.The Africans were distributed to those having an interest in the Clotilde expedition,with 32 settling on the Meaher property at Magazine Point,three miles north of Mobile.This formed the nucleus of what came to be known,and still is known,as AfricaTown.
AfricaTown is unique in that it represents a group of Africans who were forcefully removed from their homeland,sold into slavery,and then formed their own,largely self-governing community,all the while maintaining a strong sense of African cultural heritage.This sense of heritage and sense of community continues to thrive today,more than 140 years after the landing of the Clotilde in Mobile Bay.
Africa Town (非洲镇)在阿拉巴马州的莫比尔市,在墨西哥湾沿岸,是1860最后一箱非洲人着陆的地方.(那时候从非洲运黑奴) 他们的着陆标志着有记载中的最后一次从非洲运奴隶到美国.
美国非洲镇的历史源于1859年西非的加纳(在现在塔马利的附近).非洲部落被卷进了内战,战胜的部落把战败部落的成员卖为奴隶.Tarkbar部落的村庄在塔马利附近,遭到达荷美士兵的袭击,幸存者被带到Whydah,(如今是贝宁*),然后被售卖,售价是100美元每人.他们被Clotilde帆船被运往美国,船长William Foster是负责押送他们的人.Timothy Meaher受雇于一个来自莫比尔市的有钱船商,叫Timothy Meaher,Clotilde帆船就是他在1856年制造的.
在1850年代,有很多关于重新开放非洲奴隶交易的传言,贩卖奴隶在1808年就被宣布为不合法了.就在这样的历史背景下,Meaher and Foster计划着他们横跨大西洋偷渡奴隶来莫比尔市的航程.Foster船长在1860年7月9日晚进入莫比尔港.他把装着奴隶的箱子转到小船上,用藤蔓把他们遮盖住.然后他把他的帆船烧了,使之沉没.这些非洲人被分配到莫比尔以北3英里的地方.非洲镇的形成就是从这样开始的.非洲镇特别的地方在于它标志着一群*离开家乡、被卖为奴的非洲人,建立了他们自己的,自治的庞大社群,一直保存着浓厚的非洲文化传统.在140多年后的今天,他们的传统和社群还在壮大,