Abdul Aziz, It’s a Trap, 2021, Courtesy of the artist

Union Missionary Baptist Church

Africatown

1. Abdul Aziz, The Faithful, 2022, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

2. Abdul Aziz, Say Their Names, 2022, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

3. Abdul Aziz, These Shores, 2021, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artistIn 1860,

110 enslaved Africans, between the ages of five and twenty-three, were illegally brought to America by plantation owner Timothy Meaher aboard the Clotilda ship and taken to land owned by the Meaher family just north of Mobile, Alabama. The enslaved Africans were forced to wait for days naked in the swamp until they could be parsed and sold to buyers and the Meahers.

4. Abdul Aziz, It’s a Trap, 2021, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

5. Abdul Aziz, Meaher’s Trap House, 2021, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the artist

The wreckage of the Clotilda sits just meters from the Meaher family, former plantation owners, trap house near Twelvemile Island just north of Mobile, Alabama.