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I'm talking about some of these things kind of haphazardly,
because it's really not organized in my mind as I would like to have it.
So Captain Foster, as it was said, he had a gun in two hands,
threatened to shoot anybody or kill anybody
who attempted to leave the ship.
Some of the people were carried to Plateau,
some were carried to Selma,
and some to another county in Alabama.
This is one form of a family heritage
which can be passed on to your descendants.
Many Black people don't know who they are.
They don't know where they came from.
They don't know who their ancestors were.
And they would like to know.
Now, many of these things were done on purpose.
They were done so you would never be able to find out who you were
or find out your ancestry.
But everybody wants to know something about their ancestors.
What's this? What's this? What's this?
We think it's the marker for Charlie grave.
This came out of the graveyard, right?
It's really sobering.
It just became real.
Even though this is just a depiction, this is not a real photograph,
it just really became real.
I could really feel their pain right here. I feel a connection to those people.
And it breaks my heart. It really just…
I just really grieve for these people that I don't even know.
I'll go process all this tonight. I really-- I can't stop staring at it.
I read the New York Times.
Did you?
Yeah, the first person had you as age 43.
That was in Sunday's paper?
What's your name?
Robert Lewis.
Okay, so Lewis from the…
This is Michael Foster.
-The descendant of Captain Foster. -Are you really?
I'm from Cudjo Lewis's descendants.
-Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you.
Guess who that guy is over there.
No idea.
Introduce yourself to him.
Mike Foster.
Hi, Mike. Nice to meet you.
He's a descendant of the Fosters. You know, like, William Foster.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
William Foster is my first cousin four times removed.
I'm Garry Lumbers.
Lumbers. Sorry. I don't have my hearing aids today.
Well, Cudjo talked about the twins.
You know the two little girls that Cudjo talked about?
Mary's my mother.
-Oh, is that right? -Yeah.
Oh wow. My name's Ben Raines.
Okay, nice to meet you.
Where we are right now is where the last battle was,
which is not in the State Park, because the State Park doesn't own it.
The people who own it… Guess who? The Meahers.
So the Meahers actually own the last site of the Civil War
where colored troops won the decisive battle.
They came up here at night, and I think it all happened
probably around 8 o'clock at night.
Because, if he held dinner on the steamboat until he got there
as his alibi and they say they ate dinner at nine-something.
You all should talk about, at some point,
even though there were things that were told that were incorrect,
you should still share stories with each other.
Because sometimes in those stories, there's some nuggets of truth.
And someday, someone can investigate
some of those statements that were made.
That's important.
There needs to be a group oral history,
you know, people talking with each other.
And did your family talk about this stuff?
No, we didn't know about it.
It's a hard pill to swallow, either way you look at it.
Yes, it is.
This history will go on. And I give you my…
This is my prayer that you love your history enough
that you wanna tell it everywhere you go.
Are you afraid to breathe?
No, no. It's very easy.
Once you get in the water, everything becomes light.
And you don't have no weight on you at all.
Yeah. You become neutrally buoyant, and so that means everything is equal.
It's like floating.