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Kossola and his former shipmates worked in sawmills and powder mills, on farms and railroads, and as domestic help, until they had saved enough money to buy the land that became Africatown. Photograph from Erik Overbey Collection, Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama