A century and a half after Cudjo Lewis was taken from Benin, his great‑great‑granddaughter Cassandra Lewis has become the ...
A cast iron image pays tribute to the last surviving member of the final slave ship that came to America. Cudjo Lewis was one of more than 100 slaves captured in West Africa and brought here on the ...
More than 165 years after the last known slave ship arrived in the United States, one descendant of its survivors has ...
The work titled, "Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo'” traces the origins of Cudjo Lewis, the last surviving African to be sold into the American slave trade. Prolific novelist and essayist ...
Cudjo Lewis outside his home in Alabama in the 1930s. Erik Overbey Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama. "Cudjo meetee de people at de gate ...
"I want to know who you are and how you came to be a slave." That was one of the first questions that Zora Neale Hurston asked 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis when she traveled from New York to Mobile, Ala., ...
On May 8, HarperCollins will publish “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo,’” a book by Zora Neale Hurston, a prolific African American author best known for “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” ...
In 1931, the iconic author Zora Neale Hurston finished writing her almost 120-page book on 95-year-old Cudjo Lewis, the last-known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade. Nearly a century later, Hurston ...
In 1927, author Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, the last known living person who could recount the experience of being taken captive... 'Barracoon' Offers A Vivid, First-Hand Account Of ...
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