Saturday • October 12 • 3-6 PM • Wheelchair Accessible
RCNV • 612 Ocean St • Santa Cruz • $25 Suggested Donation
Join Santa Cruz Black for a deep dive and learn more about the impact of the Clotilda’s recovery, its descendants and what’s next for the folks of Africatown.
Black divers were central to the reclamation of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to transport kidnapped Africans to the United States. The event features Kamau Sadiki, a master diver with the Slave Wrecks Project, and Joycelyn Davis, a direct descendant through Charlie Lewis of the 110 Africans who were violently uprooted from their homes and communities.
A multigenerational conversation will be facilitated by Santa Cruz Black with Black Studies students at UC Santa Cruz in partnership with representatives from John Lewis College and the Humanities Institute. Topics will include how the reclamation of the wreck was an act of resistance to the world-shattering racialized and colonial violence of chattel slavery, an act of remembrance prompting us to consider waterways as a Black geography, and an act of community resilience and rebuilding. Some purposeful questions to be held are: How does the resurfacing of the wreck challenge generations of secrecy and silence? How does it upend the presumption of closure and healing?
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