Full name: Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis
A tribute to Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis, (1840-1935), considered the last person born on African soil to have been enslaved in the United States when slavery was unlawful and had been ceased. Born in current days Togo or Benin (the account is confused on this point), he was captured in Porto Novo, Benin, and taken to the port of Ouidah. Together with more than a hundred other captured Africans, he was brought on the ship Clotilde to Mobile, Alabama, in the United States in 1860 during an illegal slave-trading venture. He was the longest-lived survivor of all those who were brought aboard the Clotilde.
Although he is one of the smallest of the litter, Kazoola is growing well and is healthy and as active as a one-week old pup can be.
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