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“I think those who visit will really learn a lot about this particular story,” said Jeremy Ellis, president of the Clotilda Descendants Association and a sixth-generation descendant of Pollee and Rose Allen, who were enslaved and on the Clotilda.

Darron Patterson, a descendant of Clotilda captive Pollee Allen, said he met twice last month with a Meaher family member who contacted him through an intermediary.

“Once those people came out of that cargo hold and grew up into men and women, they produced Africatown,” said Patterson, whose great great grandfather, Pollee Allen, was among the captives.

On Election Day in Alabama in 1874, Cudjo Lewis, Pollee Allen and Charlie Lewis appeared at their polling place to cast their ballots, only to be stopped by Timothy Meaher, the man who had once enslaved them.

He and two other designers created a four-urinal toilet, called Pollee, in 2011.