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Africatown | Sunday on 60 Minutes

Name: Africatown | Sunday on 60 Minutes
Uploaded: 2023-11-16T12:00:00-0500
Duration: 1 min 2 s
Description: Anderson Cooper returns to Africatown to witness a historic meeting between the descendants of the enslaved Africans and the descendants of Timothy Meaher, the man who commissioned the Clotilda. Africatown is a community founded by the formerly enslaved men and women brought to Alabama on the Clotilda slave ship in 1860.

Anderson Cooper returns to Africatown to witness a historic meeting between the descendants of the enslaved Africans and the descendants of Timothy Meaher, the man who commissioned the Clotilda. Africatown is a community founded by the formerly enslaved men and women brought to Alabama on the Clotilda slave ship in 1860.