Episode 063 - Troy University McPherson - Mitchell Roundtable March 7 2023

Show Notes: Episode 63 – Troy University McPherson-Mitchell
Roundtable on the Clotilda and Africatown Air date: June 7, 2023
The History and Philosophy Department at Troy University turned its
annual McPherson-Mitchell Lecture in Southern History into a
roundtable on the Clotilda, the last slave ship in the United
States (1860), and Africatown, the community founded by the
emancipated and their descendants. The participants included: Dr.
Kathryn Tucker, host and Lecturer, Troy University History &
Philosophy Department Mr. Jeremy Ellis, President of the Clotilda
Descendants Association, Inc. Mr. Ben Raines, journalist, author,
and discoverer of the Clotilda wreck Ms. Stacye Hathorn, Alabama
State Archeologist Gen. Walter Givhan, former chair of the Alabama
Historical Commission Mr. Theo Moore, principal of Hiztorical
Visions Productions, a film company Special thanks to Troy
University and Troy TrojanVision for providing the audio recording
of the roundtable for use as an Alabama History Podcast. Links
mentioned in the episode: McPherson-Mitchell Lecture in Southern
History
https://www.troy.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-arts-sciences/departments/history-philosophy-department/activities-clubs/mcphmitch.html
Troy University https://www.troy.edu/ Troy TrojanVision
https://www.troy.edu/student-life-resources/campus-media/troy-trojanvision/index.html
Clotilda Descendants Association, Inc.
https://theclotildastory.com/ Saving America's Amazon by Ben Raines
https://ugapress.org/book/9781588383389/saving-americas-amazon/ The
Last Slave Ship by Ben Raines
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Last-Slave-Ship/Ben-Raines/9781982136154
Alabama Historical Commission https://ahc.alabama.gov/ Hiztorical
Vision Productions https://hiztoricalvp.org/ Descendant (film) by
Margaret Brown
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16376494/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Afrikan by
Way of American (film)
https://hiztoricalvp.org/documentary/afrikan-by-way-of-american-history-of-africatown-full-documentary-hvp/
Diving with a Purpose https://divingwithapurpose.org/ Slave Wrecks
Project https://global.si.edu/projects/slave-wrecks-project Alabama
State Council on the Arts https://arts.alabama.gov/ Africatown
Heritage House and "Clotilda: The Exhibition at the Africatown
Heritage House" https://clotilda.com/ If you'd rather read, here is
the link to a transcript of the roundtable:
https://tinyurl.com/3uk982cn Disclaimer: *Be aware that the
transcript may not be 100 percent correct* The Alabama History
Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is
Laura Murray. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association
is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA
provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past
through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other
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