SJR93 Summary

• Commends and supports research efforts by the Alabama Historical Commission, National Park Service, SEARCH Inc., Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Slave Wrecks Project related to the Clotilda ship and Africatown preservation.

• Acknowledges that shipwreck remains discovered in Baldwin County in January 2018 were initially believed to be the Clotilda, the last ship known to bring enslaved Africans to the United States on July 8, 1860, with 110 African passengers.

• Recognizes that archaeological investigation determined the discovered vessel was not the Clotilda, but the findings have renewed national and international attention to locating the actual ship.

• Commemorates Africatown as the first town founded, continuously occupied, and controlled by African Americans in the United States, established in 1866 by Clotilda survivors who became U.S. citizens in 1868 and built churches and graveyards.

• Encourages continued efforts to preserve and promote the historical significance of the Clotilda and Africatown heritage.