Best of '22: Descendant

You Can’t Make This Up

At the top of Rebecca's Best Of list, we're replaying her interview with “Descendant" director and producer, Margaret Brown.

The Clotilda was the last known ship to arrive in the United States carrying enslaved Africans, decades after slave importation was outlawed. The ship was burned and sank somewhere in the Mobile River, while its passengers would later settle in the community of Africatown. In the century that followed, the descendants of The Clotilda struggled to preserve their heritage in an Alabama town encircled by industrial property owned by the descendants of the slave owners. As a renewed effort to find the missing wreck gets underway, the community grapples with the implications of its discovery.

2022-12-21 38 min

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