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
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
Redoshi
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Redoshi was a West African woman who was enslaved and smuggled to the U.S. state of Alabama as a girl in 1860. Until a later surviving claimant, Matilda McCrear, was announced in 2020, she was conside
Cudjoe Lewis
…be the last survivor of the Clotilda, until historian Hannah Durkin identified two longer-lived Clotilda survivors, who made the voyage as children: Redoshi, who died in 1937, and Matilda McCrear, who died in 1940. He was born as Kossola or Oluale Kossola (Americans would later transcribe his given name as…
Redoshi in The Negro Farmer (1938)
Redoshi and her husband