The Last American Slave: Identity Of The Negro (Hidden Black History)
The Last American Slave: Identity Of The Negro (Hidden Black History)
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Cudjo Lewis is considered the last survivor of the last slave ship to enter the United States. Born around 1841 to a Yoruba family in the Banté region of Dahomey (today Benin), he was given the name Oluale Kossola (Kazoola). At age 14, Kossola began his training as a soldier and was inducted into oro, the Yoruba secret male society; by age 19, Kossola was undergoing initiation. His initiation training was cut short, however, in the spring of 1860 when soldiers from Dahomey raided Kassola's town, killing townspeople and taking prisoners. Though he attempted escape, Kossola was among the captured to be marched to Ouidah, a port city on the Atlantic coast of Benin, and imprisoned in a slave compound. He was sold to William Foster, captain of the Clotilda, a schooner built by Foster in Mobile, Alabama and later converted into a ship capable of illegally transporting Africans as slave cargo into the United States.
Kossola was among the 110 enslaved Africans to spend an estimated 45 days aboard the Clotilda. Upon entering the Mississippi Sound on July 8, 1860, Kossola and seven other bondsmen were transferred to James Meaher, brother of Timothy Meaher. When James Meaher could not pronounce Kossola's name, Kossola told Meaher to call him "Cudjo." Cudjo worked on a steamship and was subject to overwork and poor living conditions for five years. On April 12, 1865, Union soldiers informed Cudjo and other slave workers on the steamboat that they were free.
Upon emancipation, Cudjo left James Meaher's plantation and took the name Lewis. Desiring to return to Africa, he and his Clotilda captives attempted to acquire reparations in the form of repatriation or land. In 1872, after failing to receive either, Cudjo and the Mobile Africans pooled their resources and purchased land from the Meahers and other wealthy whites to form a settlement, which they named Africa Town. Cudjo resided in Africa Town for the remainder of his life. He became a citizen of the United States in 1868 and a Baptist in 1869.
In 1880, Lewis legally married Celia (Abile), a fellow Clotilda capture who had lived with Cudjo since 1866. Together they had five sons and one daughter. Cudjo worked as a shingle maker until 1902, when he was injured in a train accident. He then became the church s*xton for Africa Town. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston famously interviewed and filmed Cudjo, who, as historian Sylviane A. Diouf notes, is the "only known African deported through the slave trade whose moving image exists." Cudjo achieved further recognition after being interviewed by numerous other writers and journalists.
Israel was scattered among the nations though the process of time which exacted the punishment spoken against them by their God who delivered them from Egyptian bondage. The inhabitants of Caanan became a snare for Israel because Israel served their gods. They were allowed to oppress and harass the Israelites for many centuries. The Assyrian and Babylonian captivites became the implementation of the curses for a time. Nonetheless, there were conditions of the curses which could not be accomplished while in exile among those nations.
Many Blacks have been led to believe that because they were born in America, they are American. They think being born in America also means, that they are somehow given an ancestral nationality, when in fact they only received a partial residency status in the country of their birth. We must remember that according to the U.S. Constitution, the African is only considered three-fifths of a man.
The fact is that African Americans, through a pseudo-emancipation have been educated to think that residing in America makes them Americans. This has also acted as a smoke screen in preventing them from finding their true national identity. Some of the most educated people among Africans in America have been duped when it comes to this issue. Ultimately, it is a case of modern thinking having produced a modern ignorance.
America is Babylon the Great in the book of revelation and Donald Trump including the administration (steve bannon, sean spicer etc) will lay a key role in the last days, including Russia's Vladimir Putin, Bashar Assad & Iran in the great alliance against America & the Israeli Zionist regime.
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/lewis-ko...
Cudjo Lewis is considered the last survivor of the last slave ship to enter the United States. Born around 1841 to a Yoruba family in the Banté region of Dahomey (today Benin), he was given the name Oluale Kossola (Kazoola). At age 14, Kossola began his training as a soldier and was inducted into oro, the Yoruba secret male society; by age 19, Kossola was undergoing initiation. His initiation training was cut short, however, in the spring of 1860 when soldiers from Dahomey raided Kassola's town, killing townspeople and taking prisoners. Though he attempted escape, Kossola was among the captured to be marched to Ouidah, a port city on the Atlantic coast of Benin, and imprisoned in a slave compound. He was sold to William Foster, captain of the Clotilda, a schooner built by Foster in Mobile, Alabama and later converted into a ship capable of illegally transporting Africans as slave cargo into the United States.
Kossola was among the 110 enslaved Africans to spend an estimated 45 days aboard the Clotilda. Upon entering the Mississippi Sound on July 8, 1860, Kossola and seven other bondsmen were transferred to James Meaher, brother of Timothy Meaher. When James Meaher could not pronounce Kossola's name, Kossola told Meaher to call him "Cudjo." Cudjo worked on a steamship and was subject to overwork and poor living conditions for five years. On April 12, 1865, Union soldiers informed Cudjo and other slave workers on the steamboat that they were free.
Upon emancipation, Cudjo left James Meaher's plantation and took the name Lewis. Desiring to return to Africa, he and his Clotilda captives attempted to acquire reparations in the form of repatriation or land. In 1872, after failing to receive either, Cudjo and the Mobile Africans pooled their resources and purchased land from the Meahers and other wealthy whites to form a settlement, which they named Africa Town. Cudjo resided in Africa Town for the remainder of his life. He became a citizen of the United States in 1868 and a Baptist in 1869.
In 1880, Lewis legally married Celia (Abile), a fellow Clotilda capture who had lived with Cudjo since 1866. Together they had five sons and one daughter. Cudjo worked as a shingle maker until 1902, when he was injured in a train accident. He then became the church s*xton for Africa Town. In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston famously interviewed and filmed Cudjo, who, as historian Sylviane A. Diouf notes, is the "only known African deported through the slave trade whose moving image exists." Cudjo achieved further recognition after being interviewed by numerous other writers and journalists.
Israel was scattered among the nations though the process of time which exacted the punishment spoken against them by their God who delivered them from Egyptian bondage. The inhabitants of Caanan became a snare for Israel because Israel served their gods. They were allowed to oppress and harass the Israelites for many centuries. The Assyrian and Babylonian captivites became the implementation of the curses for a time. Nonetheless, there were conditions of the curses which could not be accomplished while in exile among those nations.
Many Blacks have been led to believe that because they were born in America, they are American. They think being born in America also means, that they are somehow given an ancestral nationality, when in fact they only received a partial residency status in the country of their birth. We must remember that according to the U.S. Constitution, the African is only considered three-fifths of a man.
The fact is that African Americans, through a pseudo-emancipation have been educated to think that residing in America makes them Americans. This has also acted as a smoke screen in preventing them from finding their true national identity. Some of the most educated people among Africans in America have been duped when it comes to this issue. Ultimately, it is a case of modern thinking having produced a modern ignorance.
America is Babylon the Great in the book of revelation and Donald Trump including the administration (steve bannon, sean spicer etc) will lay a key role in the last days, including Russia's Vladimir Putin, Bashar Assad & Iran in the great alliance against America & the Israeli Zionist regime.
