Back to All Events

Documentary Night - Descendant

Doors open at 6:30pm and showtime is 7pm.

In DESCENDANT, an underwater search and recovery mission is launched to locate the remains of the Clotilda, an illegal slave ship that brought Africans from Dahomey, West Africa to the shores of Mobile, Alabama in 1860. The vessel's arrival is more than 50 years after the abolishment of the international slave trade. On board the boat is Cudjo Lewis, who reportedly later becomes the last known survivor of the Clotilda and an Africatown, Alabama resident, the community where Clotilda descendants now live. The documentary also has archival footage of Lewis filmed by Black writer Zora Neale Hurston and excerpts of Lewis' oral history from Hurston's book Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M8ESS9hSAQ

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/descendant

Previous
Previous
October 27

Praise Moves

Next
Next
October 28

Trunk or Treat