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The Clotilda: A Centuries-Old Open Secret: Sankofa - Looking Back/Looking Forward

This guide will explore the significance of the last known slave ship in the United States, The Clotilda

Organizations for Community Development & Preservation

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Door of No Return

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Door of No Return is a passageway through which captive African men, women and children were led to slaving vessels.

Pictured above is in Ouidah, Benin.  

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Maison des Esclavos (Goree Island, Dakar, Senegal) 

Why I Love Senegal - GORÉE | MEMORY ISLAND | THE HOUSE OF SLAVES Off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar, Gorée was from the 15th to the 19th century a slave

 

Cape Coast Castle (Ghana)

Photo Gallery: The Cape Coast Castle in Ghana – Anderson Cooper 360 - CNN.com Blogs

 

Elmina Castle (Ghana)

Atlantans centuries later visit Ghana's “Door of No Return"

 

SANKOFA: "Go Back and Get It"

Monuments and Museum

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National Museum of African-American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institute, Wash., D.C)

AFRICATOWN HERITAGE PRESERVATION FUND

Because of the resilient positive spirit and ever-enduring legacy of our community, the Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation (AHPF) is devoted to promoting stewardship and awareness of the historic, cultural, and economic value of Africatown.  AHPF will nurture and support healing and collaborative efforts related to Africatown. 

SPOTLIGHT

The Africatown Connections Blueway: development of an international tourist attraction that is composed of 14 points of interest that highlight natural, historical or cultural themes along a 10+ mile route.  Includes:

  • AHPF partners with environmental justice advocates to repair community and nature. 
  • Guardians of Heritage is a youth educational and civic leadership program that links Africatown youth with other youth across seven US cities. 
  • Africatown Eco-Garden: a comprehensive response to food insecurity in Africatown 
  • Africatown Housing Revitalization Initiative: rehabilitation and restoration of homes,  prevention of land theft and saving homes from auctions due to property tax liens.
  • Africatown Plateau Historic Cemetery: ongoing maintenance and improvements 
  • Youth Scuba Dive & Swim Program:  in collaboration with Diving with a Purpose and The Smithsonian’s Slave Wrecks Project, AHPF supports educational water activities for youth (12-18) towards their eventual involvement in the dive research of the slave ship Clotilda.