As the long-awaited opening date of Mobile’s Africatown Heritage House approaches, backers have released new details of the opening and the Clotilda exhibition it will house.
The Africatown Heritage House as pictured on Thursday, January 26, 2023, in Mobile, Ala. .
“Imagine if people come from all over the world just to hear this story,” said Fairley, a University of South Alabama graduate with a master’s in communication art from Valdosta State University. “I want Africatown Heritage House to be the Plymouth Rock for Black people. I want people from all over the world to be able to come here, place their hands on the glass and connect with their ancestors.”
Since plans for the Heritage House were announced, the History Museum of Mobile has been guiding the development of the initial exhibit that will be featured when it opens on July 8. “That’s going to give them an experience that they’ve never had before and never knew they could have,” Fairley said. “Africatown Heritage House is a place of hope and pride. You’ll come in and see what these people were able to do after they were taken away from their homes and put in a place unknown to them. I don’t know what my ancestors went through, but knowing what the survivors of the Clotilda went through gives me a piece of my story.
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