Two of the South’s most respected journalists—Pulitzer Prize winner Cynthia Tucker and author/historian Frye Gaillard—address a hard question: Has the South exported its worst qualities to the nation, or can our better angels survive?

The Clotilda was the last slave ship to sail from western Africa to the American South. When slavery ended, the boat’s captives built Africatown, their own self-sustaining community on Mobile Bay. With this week’s release of a new Netflix documentary, their story is about to reach the entire world.