Cudjo

American  

[kuhj-oh] / ˈkʌdʒ oʊ /

Or Cudjoe

noun

1. a male day name for Monday. day name

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Example Sentences

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

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

Across the entrance of the cavern, like an ogre keeping guard, Cudjo was stretched on a bed of skins.

From Cudjo's Cave by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)