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Cudjoe Lewis

Died July 17, 1935

The third-to-last adult survivor of the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the United States. Founding member of a community at Magazine Point, north of Mobile, Alabama.

Known For

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves · 1928

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

"A five-minute silent film featuring Kossula (also known as Cudjo Lewis), the eighty-eight-year- old man who many believed to be the last survivor of the Middle Passage." -- Autumn Womack

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Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves · 1928

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

"A five-minute silent film featuring Kossula (also known as Cudjo Lewis), the eighty-eight-year- old man who many believed to be the last survivor of the Middle Passage." -- Autumn Womack