Mobile Public Library Digital Collections

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.

Browse Items (55 total)

Last Survivor of Slave Ship Deeply Grateful to God, Man . 18 Aug 1935 Mobile Press.pdf
Mobile Press article about the passing of Kazoola, also known as Cujo Lewis

Lorna Woods talks about the sense of community and family she experienced growing up in Lewis' Quarters.

Mabel Dennison talks about her book, including her grandparents, the Clotilde, and Africatown

Item 1.5 Dreams.pdf
Book review of Sylviane Diouf's book, "Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America"

Item 3 Digging the Clotilda.pdf
Newspaper article on the Clotilda and Africatown

Item 5 Africatown.pdf
Newspaper article on Africatown, referencing the Clotilda

Item 9 From Africa to Africatown.pdf
Newspaper article on the AfricaTown Folk Festival

Item 14 The tale of a bizarre bet.pdf
Newspaper article on the Clotilda

Item 33 The Author and Africatown.pdf
Book review of Emma Langdon Roche's Historic Sketches of the South
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