It has long been believed that a man named Cudjo Lewis was the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Now a researcher at Newcastle University in Britain says she has discovered testimony from someone who may have lived even longer — a woman named Redoshi. The new findings, published […]
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The Last Slave | Vulture
In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston sought to publish the story of Cudjo Lewis, the final slave-ship survivor. Instead it languished in a vault. Until now.
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The Story of Cudjo Lewis — The Last Living Slave Brought To America | All That Is Interesting
As a slave, he went by the name “Cudjo,” a day-name given to boys born on a Monday, as the slavers could not pronounce the name “Kossola.”
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