Stephen Satterfield Instagram – Spent an incredible weekend in Mobile, AL for the release of #Descendant, where @whetstonemagazine got to work on an adjacent production for the impact campaign with @participant.
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For fans of High on the Hog, consider Descendant companion viewing. It is the story of The Clotilda, the last known vessel bringing enslaved Africans to the US in 1860, over fifty years after the trade was abolished. The vessel was both a callous bet and an illicit investment. It was also a success. 110 men, women and children were forcibly brought from the shores of Benin to Mobile, Alabama, where five years later, after the Confederate defeat in the war to maintain slavery, the surviving families built a nearby community that would come to be know as #Africatown.
Its most well-known ancestor and descendant Cudjo Lewis, who helped found community, and was the subject of Zora Neale Hurston’s, Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’
The same families that illegally chartered that ship and burned its remnants went on/continued to acquire land and build wealth. The land was used to build an industrial zone that created a public health crisis for Africatown residents that continues today.
This is a film about evolving violence and elusive justice. So now that we know all that, now what? That’s both the question and the call to action.
More to come from us in support of this work, but it’s streaming now on @netflix. Directed by @margaret_luce_brown, made possible by @participant @highergroundmedia and @questlove who, incredibly, happens to be a descendant of the Clotilda! | Posted on 24/Oct/2022 20:56:26
