The Port City Plate Podcast presented by Bienville Bites Food Tour. The Port City Plate is a podcast featuring the food, history, and people of Mobile, Alabama and on today's episode we nailed all three with Joycelyn Davis!
The Clotilda was the last known slave ship to enter U.S. soil in 1860, over 50 years after the slave trade had been abolished. The descendants of that ship still reside just north of Mobile in a community called, Africatown.
Joycelyn Davis is the organizer of the "Spirit of our Ancestors Festival", a member of the Clotilda Descendants Association and has become the face of Africatown and the Clotilda Descendants. Joycelyn has been featured prominently in the Netflix documentary, Descendant. She has been featured in a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper, and she just returned from a trip to London where a screening of Descendant was showing at the historic Ritzy Cinema.
We talk to Joycelyn about Africatown, the Clotilda, her descendants- Charlie and Maggie Lewis, growing up in Africatown, the future and tourism opportunities in Africatown and her conversation with former president, Barack Obama! We also talked food (GUMBO!), and get Joycelyn's thoughts on how a southern girl eats when she is traveling the world.
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