Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis (c. 1841 – July 17, 1935), born Oluale Kossola, [1] and also known as Cudjo Lewis, was the third-to-last adult survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and …

2021年12月8日 · Cudjo Lewis died on July 17, 1935, at the age of 95, outliving his wife and all of his children by 27 years. His life is an intimate look at the horrors of the slave trade and how …

2018年5月3日 · Zora Neale Hurston's searing book about Cudjo Lewis, brought to Alabama aboard the Clotilda—the last known US slave ship—took nearly 90 years to find a publisher.

2009年12月19日 · Cudjo Lewis is considered the last survivor of the last slave ship to enter the United States. Born around 1841 to a Yoruba family in the Banté region of Dahomey (today …

2024年8月21日 · The man known as Cudjo Lewis (ca. 1841-1935) was one of the last survivors of the Clotilda, the last recorded slave ship to the United States, which arrived in Mobile on …

Born Oluale Kossola, Cudjo Lewis was brought to the U.S. on the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to the Americas, enslaved until the end of the Civil War, and spent the rest of his life living …

Cudjo Lewis died July 17, 1935, and was buried at the Plateau Cemetery in Africatown. Since his death, his status as the last survivor of the Clotilda and the written record created by his …

2018年5月8日 · Cudjo Lewis was already known to those who cared about black history. He was the last known living person who could recount first-hand the experience of having been taken …

Cudjo Lewis was the last known survivor to arrive on the final slave ship to the United States. Through his life, he watched his world change in unimaginable ways, taking him from the …

Cudjo Lewis died in 1935 at the age of 114. He may not have been the last African enslaved in the United States, but he was the last survivor of the last known ship to bring Africans as slave …