Mobile Public Library Local History & Genealogy Library

The Local History and Genealogy Library is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to the history of Mobile, and the greater Gulf Coast region.

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The River That Connects Us

The river that connects us Nov. 26 2015 Press-Register 2A.pdf

Book review of John Sledge's book on the history of the Mobile River

Tags: African Town, Africatown, AL.com, Clotilda, Doehring, Meaher, Mobile River, National Register of Historic Places, Press-Register, Sledge

Mobile Given Plaque Honoring Noted Slave

Mobile given plaque honoring noted slave.pdf

Newspaper article on a plaque honoring Cudjo Lewis

Tags: African Town, cooper, Cudjo, freeman, hudson, knight, Lincoln University, mims, Plateau

Cudjo's Own Story of the Last African Slaver

Item 52 Cudjo's Own Story.pdf

Journal article on Cudjo and the Clotilda

Tags: Abache, African Peter, African Town, Albine, Clotilda, Clotilde, Cudjo, Cudjo's Own Story, Dabney, Dahomey, Dennison, foster, Gumpa, Hurston, Jaybee, Keeby, Kujjo, Meaher, Monachee, Mount Vernon, Orsey, Orsta, Plateau, Polute, R.B. Taney, The African Church, The Mobile Register, Togo, turner, Whydah, Zooma

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