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🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Joycelyn and Darron try to escape the shadow of the Meaher family's pervasive influence in Africatown. ~41~
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0:00.0 | Spoke media. |
0:06.4 | Previously on Family Ghosts. |
0:10.6 | Kennedy Mayor was a loudmouth and he bit this guy in a bar that he could get slaves |
0:16.0 | here. |
0:17.0 | There was a lot of you should let sleeping dog fly, you should quit looking for that ship. |
0:20.4 | Now to a truly historic discovery in Southern Alabama where the last known slave ship to |
0:25.8 | arrive in the United States has been found. |
0:28.2 | Maybe one day they conscious won't let them go to sleep and they'll wake up one morning |
0:34.3 | and say I'm going to call the news paper and tell them that we saw it for what happened |
0:40.0 | to those Africans that came on the clothes till the end. |
0:44.8 | I just think it's my time and I don't know how people feel about spirits or their ancestors |
0:52.5 | but I just feel like my grandmother and my great-grandmother are pushing me to be the |
0:59.9 | next in line. |
1:06.4 | Hello Ghost Family. |
1:08.0 | Welcome to Family Ghosts. |
1:17.0 | Back in 2014 the city of Mobile won a $1.65 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies |
1:24.2 | to quote find creative solutions to the challenges of neighborhood revitalization. |
1:29.8 | One of the neighborhoods in question was Africa Town, the community founded by a group of formerly |
1:34.4 | enslaved people who had been illegally smuggled into Mobile by Timothy Mayer. |
1:41.0 | The Bloomberg study which was run by a team of people with no connection to the neighborhood |
1:45.4 | only one of whom was African American ended after two years. |
1:49.9 | Their findings declared Africa Town to have the highest concentration of blight in all |
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