National Geographic has produced another film about the Clotilda, the last known slave ship that historians say arrived in Mobile more than a century ago.
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‘Clotilda: The Return Home’ tells the story of descendants of Cudjoe Lewis and Gumpa Lee, two survivors of the Clotilda. The film follows their descendants as they fulfill their ancestors’ lifelong dream of returning to Africa. “This particular generation — five generations in — they decided to fulfill his lifelong wish by taking soil from his memorial and taking the reverse journey back from Mobile to his village in West Africa and bury him ceremoniously there,” said Executive Producer, Ray Dotch II.
The descendants travel to Benin, West Africa, visiting sacred places like The Tree of Remembrance, used as a way for slaves to remember their roots and the Slave Route Trail. “The embrace and the love that we got from them just from getting off the plane, you know, was far more genuine, I would say and special than my life here in the United States,” said Dotch. “It very, very real and very, very emotional. Lots and lots and lots of tears throughout all of those days.”“I called my father and asked where does our middle name come from cus I am Ray Dotch the second.
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