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Lewis, Cudjo

LC control no.no2018062486
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingLewis, Cudjo
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Death date1935
Profession or occupationSlaves
Found inHurston, Zora Neale. Barracoon, 2018: title page (Cudjo Lewis) jacket flap (in 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Plateau, Alabama, to visit eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a survivor of the Clotilda, the last slaver known to have made the transatlantic journey.)
Barracoon, 2024: CIP galley (born in West Africa; his African name was Kossula; he was 86 years old in 1927; he was illegally imported on the slave ship Clotilda and arrived in Mobile, Alabama in August 1859; he died in Plateau, a suburb of Mobile, Alabama in 1935)
Associated languageeng