00:00From birth, my daddy, he always wanted us to be able to talk to our people.
00:05Because you have this type of history, your ancestors are going to always talk to you.
00:10The way my mother told me, Timothy Mayer, a local businessman,
00:14made a bet that after slavery was abolished,
00:17that he could still bring Africans into the country.
00:20He went and brought them back here and burned the ship to conceal the crime.
00:25It's slowly been erased, and as far as I can remember,
00:28it's never been in history books.
00:34The Mayer family lied to lead people to the wrong area so they wouldn't find the ship.
00:40How should I say this?
00:42I don't want the momentum of the story to just be focused on the ship.
00:48It's not all about that ship.
00:52The village that these Africans built, they called African Town.
00:57They created this thriving place, and they've been holding it down and fighting everything else.
01:03By 2019, African Town is completely surrounded every direction by some form of heavy industry.
01:12What person want to wake up knowing that they're sitting on historic land,
01:17but they got to smell the chemicals from the factory?
01:20A lot of influential people involved in all this.
01:23I think the Book of Secrets is going to be open.
01:26I don't want our history to be taken the same way our people were taken.
01:33But everybody wants to know something about action systems.
01:39History is like a puzzle that fits together.
01:44I don't want to be a part of it.
01:47I would like for us to be it.
01:50As a child, I thought the story was sad.
01:55Now, I don't get sad no more.
02:01Because we still here.
02:06My only fear is for my people's story not to be told.
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