Oluale Kossola, the Last Survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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(02-06-2019 01:42 PM)Joe Di Cola Wrote:  You might enjoy reading Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon, published for the first time last year. It is a biography of Cudjo Lewis, based on Hurston's interviews with him in 1927.

I mentioned this video to one of my volunteers at the museum today, and she also recommended this book.

Even being a historian, it is amazing to me to listen to stories like this and see folks such as this in 20th-century garb -- knowing that their history dates to the mid-1800s and that his enslavement particularly came at the hands of tribal warfare within his own African roots (a subject that seems to be avoided in much of modern history on slave trade).