Through the years, some of the settlers of Africatown adopted American Christian customs and beliefs, including the sacred ritual of baptism. The Union Baptist Church was organized in 1869 as the Old Landmark Baptist Church by Reverand Henry McCrea and several Clotilda survivors.

No. 3 Old Place of Baptism - South of the Magazine Point neighborhood and on the northern banks of the Three Mile Creek used by Africatown residents for religious baptism. No.4 Clotilda Landing - The place where the last shipment of slaves originally settled after they were offloaded from The Clotilda.

A proposed path from the Africatown Museum and Clotilda Boathouse will go to the water’s edge, the Place of Baptism, where sacred community commemorative rituals are held. Plans are for water taxis to take tourists to the Clotilda discovery site (memorial gateway three).

Africatown is one of many Black communities in the US where racism and environmental breakdown intersect. In Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” a high concentration of petrochemical plants in...

Jun 30, 2021 · In 1860, 110 Africans were brought from Benin/Dahomey/Nigeria/ to Mobile/Bay, Alabama on the Clotilda, the last slave cargo ship to come to America. 32 freed slaves then built their own town called Africatown. 2 Alabama cities Prichard & Mobile. a unique American place, threatened by generations of benign neglect... WHY africatown?

Title: Africatown Baptism Point Creator: David A. Padgett, Claire Grove, Gabriella Mabayyed, KeAnna Dakwa, Joe Womack, Liz Smith-Incer Location Created: Africatown, Alabama, United States

Dec 5, 2020 · After the Civil War, many freed Clotilda captives traveled to Magazine Point, and founded their own settlement, known today as Africatown. The settlement was isolated at first and gave the survivors a haven to continue practicing their traditional African culture.

THE AFRICATOWN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN IDEA COMPETITION explores Africatown | Alabama, --this unique American place--built by the determined genius of emancipated Africans, a strong-minded community– now threatened by generations of benign neglect… THIS COMPETITION, IS AN ADVOCACY TOOL, THAT AIMS TO RADICALLY TRANSFORM

Baptism is renewing of faith and so along the path a series of sculptures, remind the visitor of the journey through life. As the trail approached the creek, the visitor passes through a group of statues representing the community before the vista opens out onto the river.

Oct 12, 2011 · This summer, we visited Africatown, outside Mobile; I had read two or three books about it (including Dreams of Africa in Alabama), how it was a community of the last slaves brought to America, and wanted to see what was there.