Descendant

In DESCENDANT, an underwater search and recovery mission is launched to locate the remains of the Clotilda, an illegal slave ship that brought Africans from Dahomey, West Africa to the shores of Mobile, Alabama in 1860. The vessel's arrival is more than 50 years after the abolishment of the international slave trade. On board the boat is Cudjo Lewis, who reportedly later becomes the last known survivor of the Clotilda and an Africatown, Alabama resident, the community where Clotilda descendants now live. The documentary also has archival footage of Lewis filmed by Black writer Zora Neale Hurston and excerpts of Lewis' oral history from Hurston's book Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo.