Tyrone Casby, Big Chief of the Mohawk Hunters, offers chants and an Indian prayer at the marker dedication.

ID: 5707 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of Robert Spencer. ~ Creator: Robert Spencer, Photographer. ~ Date: December 31, 2019.
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Tyrone Casby's great great grandfather, William Casby, was born in enslavement in Algiers, La. Tyrone Casby's children and grandchildren (6th and 7th generation descendants of William Casby) also mask for the Mohawk Hunters.

This file appears in: African Presence in Algiers

By Ann Cobb
On December 31, 2019, the Algiers Tricentennial Committee and the Algiers community of New Orleans dedicated this historic Middle Passage marker at what is now the Algiers Courthouse honoring those…