Africatown Cemetery

A participant in a tour group views markers indicating the grave sites in the Africa Town Cemetery in Mobile County in 2010. The town, also spelled Africatown, was founded by people who were brought from Africa to be sold into slavery in 1860 aboard the last slave ship to reach U.S. shores.

Historic cemetery in Africatown, Mobile, Alabama
Photo courtesy of the Mobile Press-Register

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Historic cemetery in Africatown, Mobile, Alabama