Cudjo Lewis at his home in African Town (now Africatown), in the late 1920s. Lewis was the last survivor of the group of enslaved Africans brought illegally to the Mobile area on the Clotilda, the last ship to bring captives to the United States.
Cudjo Lewis in African Town

Courtesy of Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama
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