Africatown Mobile, Alabama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africatown

In recent years they’ve done an archeology mission to find the Clotilda.

was formed by a group of 32 West Africans, who in 1860 were bought and transported against their will in the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the United States.

So as I remember the story–and perhaps the references in the article will be more accurate, bur a slaver made a bet with somebody that he could still traffick slaves after it became illegal. He arrived in Mobile, AL with slaves on his boat and went to coll CT on his bet. He left the crew with instructions to burn the ship and everyone on board (i.e. get rid of the evidence) if he did not return. And that’s what they did. The people who founded Afeicatown escaped the fire.

The Wiki article says similar, but that the slaves were removed before scuttling the ship. Good if true, I guess. My memory isn’t great.

Maybe gentrification? When I googled this, the definitions were all about “revitalizing run down areas”, which is, I think, exactly how it’s framed when these things happen. But I really thought the word had a well defined negative connotation.

Anyway, had a conversation with a realtor once who was telling me she could get me a good deal on an apartment in a neighborhood in Brooklyn. They were looking for students because students draw internet cafes and then rich people come for the vibes. Jokes on her, Im poor.

They realized they had to become profitable somehow or else people wouldn’t stand for the environmental impact of it, so they made AI.