Last Survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Tell us more about cudgel lewis! If importation of slaves was illegal in the us since 1808 then how come slavery existed into the 1860s? Of course it has to do with money!

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If you're interested in Cudjoe Lewis' story, pick up a copy of the book "Barracoon", written by Zora Neale Hurston. It was written over fifty years ago, but not published until 2018. The more you know...

I wish you were my history teacher

The slaving history of Benin, with its 10 thousand miles of walls, was truly horrible. The British banned the slave trade but saved its wrath for that hell on earth. A farmer explained the walls by asking how might we farm among elephants?

Now Arab slavers are white slavers.

Gotta love that revisionism.

Your videos need to not be shorts.
They leave out important information and are just irritating.

We know our history, especially we who have had the dna tests. We are Bantu Shemetic Hebrews. There are plenty of books retelling our history. I am mostly Ishan which means we are of Judah. Research the Limba tribe. We are of the same people group E1B1A.

Slaves arrived in Rhode island and shipped every where. General Grant had slaves, yankee...General Lee had none. The more you know.🤠👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤔

But Africans didn't sell Africans...

Cant afford to join,just putting out history. Lu bro

Check out the Underground Railroad where Canadians travelled to the US, gathered slaves then snuck them back to 🇨🇦Canada. Each slave was given 10 acres and freedom. The “conductors” on the Railroad knew where to stop for food and shelter by African inspired quilts that hung on clotheslines. Check out the Josiah Henson Museum in Ontario Canada 🫶🏼🇨🇦💙

Well, it was more like “he was captured and sold into slavery in Dahomey who then sold him off to some illegal slave trader.”

Am I missing something, you say that the importation of slaves was banned in the US in 1808, yet Cujoe was born in Africa in 1840? Was that because the ban was not enforced properly?

That 1808 bill stipulated that all all plantations or areas of imported slavery, (meaning slavery was not of the usa under the first amendment), were considered foreigner illegal colonization territorial incursions into USA soil. It’s old wording but that’s what that bill stipulated. It’s why I call people 1809ers. And the 1865 meant that it was used as a weapon of a foreign power against the usa and we will work in the foreign area to assure our survival from this threat. It lead us to the inevitable conflict with a country called Vatican City. where slavery is still legal and World War Two reconstruction still continues. You are wrong! You just speak some form of Western European and get along in the society.

Ken burns videos must be watched with speculation!!! He's a revisionist!

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Technically Slavery was banned in 1864 with the Emancipation Proclamation.

Have you ever told the story of The Amistad? THAT also deserves to be remembered.




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1765?

Why was importing slaves banned and who was mainly responsible for that?

This is American History and should be taught in schools.

Awesome. You brought up the truth the black don't want to know or hear. Their own people captured their own people (black on black crime continues) who profited off their own people by selling them as slaves to other nations like America. Why do they not go after Africa or Africans themselves for reparations? Because they thought Americans are stupid, naive & guliable. Go after the people who stole your ancestors first.

My family imigrated to the United States, New York. I have family members whom have died while fighting in the civil war.

He died in 1935

Well, it's banned technically but they allow criminality which includes slavery so that war is not won yet.

Why not return to Africa away from the black tribes the enslave fellow blks?

Slavery wasn't banned. It was confined to the prison industrial complex... the private practice was merely nationalized under the for-profit incarceration regime, which exists to this day.

Get your History straight!

The modern day slavery system we call the Prison Industrial Complex is still tearing apart families.

A long forgotten truth!! Black people were sold as slaves by black people! 😮😢😮

His yribe was captured by s mairading tribe, and sold ...

Contrary to popular opinion, this what always happened. Slavery was a long tradition among african peoples. There were also maurading muslim slavers, but there were almost no white men out capturing Africans.

Not long ago I read AFRICATOWN, an extraordinary book that documents Cujo Lewis' story and several others. It was fascinating and painful to read. I winced and wept, so vivid was their history related. Cujo was one of the last illegally imported Africans. The story tells many details of how those people were kidnapped, imprisoned, and shipped in the bowels of the ship to Alabama. The ship was scuttled in the river, being found only recently. Gripping.

By white i suppose you mean sold by ✡️ as the top 10 biggest slave ships were owned by ✡️ and no i didnt make it up. Look it up people are scared of True and Real history. Facts are facts regardless of ethnicities and ethnocentric religions.

Which benin?

This is what made the American form of slavery so horrendous. You were born into slavery, lived your entire life as a slave and so did your children.

Born in 1840 after the banning of the importation in 1808? Was that with the Confederacy?

Especially as it was his brothers that caught him and sold him.

Just goes to show, like I always said that "reparations should start in Africa". A very respected historian on both sides. Just confirmed what few know or teach, is that it was their own countrymen that sold them to the highest bidder. Yep.

Let's be real slavery was never abolished only altered and still exists in this country only under a different guideline like so called government assistant where if you get food stamps and other assistance you can more than a certain amount of money in your bank account and you aren't allowed to do certain things you're subject to discrimination by police who would certainly kill you for no reason and not face any wrong doing

According to the 13th Amendment Slavery is still legal in the US and is enforceable by Congress.

❤ God bless all who suffered a sad life of slavery.

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Yes"Barracoon" is a great read.
I used to wonder why Zora N. Hurston did not seem to be honored by her people for her brilliant books.Then I read Barracoon. WOW My favorite of her books is "Their Eyes Were Watching GOD". Her eye witness account of the1938 Lake Okeechobee hurricane that killed hundreds if not thousands is fascinating.

Everybody knew it....nobody taught it.

He was born around 1840?
So when was he smuggled in to the USA?

When did the breeding of slaves become illegal in the USA or was that only after the civil war?

He was born around 1840?
So when was he smuggled in to the USA?

When did the breeding of slaves become illegal in the USA or was that only after the civil war?

Slave smave

Where is this published?

We didn’t outlaw slavery in the uk til like 2003 😂

Appreciate you!