After completing my experience, I went to my grandparent’s house to spend time with family. While I was there, my dad had mentioned wanting to go this museum in Mobile, Alabama. This museum was showcasing the history of the Clotilda, or the last known slave ship in the U.S., and the town, AfricaTown, that these slaves created after slavery was abolished. The Clotilda is also the only slave ship to ever be recovered in the U.S. I had never heard this story before and it was really interesting to learn more about the story as we walked through this museum. 50 years after the Transatlantic Slave Trade was abolished, plantation owner and ship builder Timothy Meaher hired a captain to bring kidnapped Africans because of a bet. I believe more people should know about this story because it shows how traumatic the slave trade was, while also showing the bravery and resilience of the slaves that were aboard the Clotilda. Despite everything they had gone through, they bought land with their own hard-earned money and created a community just for them that still exists today. I believe this story is not getting coverage in the mainstream media because many people don’t see the value of learning Black history, or believe that these traumatic events should be left in the past. The only way that we can continue to grow and move forward as a people is to recognize our mistakes in the past.
My CapStone draft is going very well. I was doing a lot of traveling with my family so I wasn’t able to turn it in time for peer reviews, but I am comfortable with editing it myself. I thought the CapStone would be a little difficult to complete but it was simply just sharing my experience and connecting it with the work I did in the Spring. I am definitely confident in submitting my final draft.
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