Clotilda (slave ship)
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The schooner Clotilda was the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa to the United States, arriving at Mobile Bay, in autumn 1859 or on July 9, 1860, with 110 African men, women, and
Wreck of the slave ship Clotilda; photograph from Historic Sketches of the South by Emma Langdon Roche, 1914
Cudjoe Lewis
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Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis, born Oluale Kossola, and also known as Cudjo Lewis, was the third-to-last adult survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the Americas. Together with 115 other Afri
Clotilda (slave ship)
…Africans in Whydah, Dahomey. After the voyage, the ship was burned and scuttled in Mobile Bay in an attempt to destroy the evidence. After the Civil War, Oluale Kossola and 31 other formerly enslaved people founded Africatown on the north side of Mobile, Alabama. They were joined by other continental Africans and formed…
Lewis c. 1914
Lewis and fellow Clotilda survivor Abaché (Clara Turner) c. 1914. By then there were eight surviving members of the Clotilda group.
Lewis' commemorative marker in Plateau Cemetery, Africatown