Cudjo
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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My mind oscillates between the story of Cudjo Lewis' history and Professor Ferguson's resonant warning and about the current efforts to suppress history as "fascist degradation of human beings."
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2023
On that journey, Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, then the oldest living formerly enslaved man who had been abducted on the Clotilda ship, the last slave ship to the United States.
From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023
One of them was a 19-year-old called Kossula, who later took the name Cudjo Lewis and remained in Alabama until his death in 1935; another was Sally “Redoshi” Smith, who lived until 1937.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022
In front of a church founded by the freed slaves sits a bust of Cudjo Lewis, who was the last surviving African from the last slave ship voyage to America when he died in 1935.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2019
Two years later, under Captain Cudjo, the maroons became so formidable that two regiments of regular troops besides the island militia were employed to reduce them.
From The West Indies and the Spanish Main by Rodway, James
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