Survivor of last American slave ship identified
Dr. Hannah Durkin of the U.K.’s University of Newcastle has determined the identity of the last survivor of the last American slave ship. Redoshi, given the slave name ‘Sally Smith,’ was kidnapped from West Africa at age 12 and, after spending five years as a slave, died in Alabama in 1937 at the age of 89 or 90. Previously, the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade was thought to be Oluale Kossola, also known as Cudjo Lewis, who died in 1935.
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