Cudjoe Lewis was the last surviving African slave to have been forcibly transported across the Atlantic to America. He was bought in 1860 for just $50 in what was then the West African kingdom of Dahomey - now the Republic of Benin - and brought to the port of Mobile aboard the slave-ship Clotilde. He was freed at the end of the Civil War and elected to remain in Alabama. He died in 1935 in what is now the suburban Mobile neighborhood of Prichard, aged about 94.
Cudjoe Lewis
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