From Clotilda to Community: The History of Mobile Alabama's Africatown
Format
Residential
Location
Mobile, AL
Dates
June 16 - 20, 2025 or June 23 - 27, 2025
Length
1 week
Type
Professional Development Program
Professional Development Program Type
Professional Development Program Audience
Contact
@email
251-380-3846
Spring Hill College and the National Endowment for the Humanities invite you to a week-long workshop in the Summer of 2025. Workshop participants engage in the history of Africatown in Mobile, AL, founded by the last group of enslaved Africans brought to the United States in the infamous schooner, Clotilda, in 1860.
Project Director(s)
Ryan Noble; Joe'l Lewis Billingsley
Lecturers and Visiting Faculty
Sylviane Diouf; Natalie Robertson; Darron Patterson; Kern Jackson; Nick Tabor; Altavese Rosario; Shandra Brown; Monica Motley; Jessica Fairly; Joe Womack; Ramsey Sprague; Joycelyn Davis; Benterah Morton; Kenja McCray; Christy Garrison-Harrison; Dieudonnd Dagan Gnammankou; Andrew Wegmann
Grantee Institution
Spring Hill College
Funded through the Division of Education Programs