Hurston, Zora Neale: 1891-1960
Barracoon, 2018 - Background
- Clotilda, the Ship
- 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 summer 1860, with 110 African men, women, and children.
The Atlantic slave trade had already been banned by Congress on March 2, 1807 (effective January 1, 1808), but the practice continued illegally. After the voyage, the ship was burned in an attempt to destroy any evidence. - Exploring the Clotilda. NPR-Audio; June 15, 2022
Transcipt - America’s last slave ship is more intact than anyone thought. National Geographic; December 21, 2021
- The Last Slave Ship Clotilda and its Future. NAACP; 2022
- Olnale Kossola
- Olnale Kossola (c. 1841 – July 17, 1935), also known as Cudjo Lewis, was ~20 when he was snatched from his West African home and brought to America on the last slave ship, “The Clotilda”, in 1860. He was around ~90 when Zora Neale Hurston interviewed him in 1927.
- Kossola's home in the 1930s
- Information from Wikipedia
- The man known as Cudjo Lewis. Biography from Encyclopedia of Alabama. December 6, 200
- Oluale Kossola, the Last Survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- Interview in the 1930s That Surfaced Almost 90 Years Later
- One of the Last Slave Ship Survivors Describes His Ordeal in a 1930s Interview: "To avoid detection, Lewis’ captors snuck him and the other survivors into Alabama at night and made them hide in a swamp for several days." History; May 3, 2018
- Cudjo Lewis:The Last Slaveship Survivor from History With No Chaser. February 18, 2021