Cudjo
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Even legendary folklorist Zora Neale Hurston’s 1931 text “Barracoon,” capturing the oral testimony of the long-lived survivor Cudjo Lewis, couldn’t get published until 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
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
Cudjo, make Mr. Hapgood a cup of coffee; he looks tired.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
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