Cudjo
Americannoun
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With my newfound appetite for the written word, I've now turned to devouring Hurston's "Barracoon," the story derived from interviews conducted in 1927 with Cudjo Lewis, the last surviving "cargo" transported from Africa.
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
The previously unpublished book is based on interviews Hurston did in 1927 with elderly former slave Cudjo Lewis, who recalled his passage in captivity on a ship from Africa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2018
"I have some salted bear's meat that you'll be welcome to; and may be Cudjo can spare a little meal."
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
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