'Very soon, we’re going to stop talking about the ship as much as we talk about the people. Because the stories of the people are what matter,” said Darron Patterson, president of the Clotilda Descendants Association.
With storms moving in and a high-rise bridge looming overhead, a group of descendants and supporters gathered Saturday to pay tribute to the last Africans brought into slavery in the United States.
“Today is the day that, 162 years ago, 110 enslaved Africans were brought to this country against their will for the purpose of satisfying a bet,” said Darron Patterson, president of the association. “And that’s all. Their lives were changed by people who thought they had more power than anybody else. They didn’t know that the actual power was the people in that cargo hold. So today that’s why we’re here, to make sure that we pay homage to the 110, and never let their story die.
“You know, we talk about the ship,” he said. “I don’t care about the nails, the wood, the sails, because everybody wants to talk about the ship. But the ship did not matter. The ship was pure evil. It was a vessel of evil. The real story was the people inside that cargo hold. Very soon, we’re going to stop talking about the ship as much as we talk about the people. Because the stories of the people are what matter.
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