It has long been believed that a man named Cudjo Lewis was the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Now a researcher at Newcastle University in Britain says she ...

The small west African nation of Benin last year enacted a law granting citizenship to descendants of enslaved people to acknowledge the country’s complicity in the transatlantic slave trade, and ...

Cudjo Lewis and Gumpa Lee, survivors of the last American slave ship, dreamed of going back to their ancestral homes over 150 years ago. Now, their descendants embark on a journey to fulfill those ...

Reviewed by Ana Lucia Araujo in Journal of African history (Cambridge, England) 60 (2) 2019, pages 297-299(DT1.J858 AFA). "In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to ...

She was captured at about the age of 12 in West Africa and forced aboard the Clotilda, the last slave vessel to arrive in the United States in 1860. Now researchers have identified Redoshi as the last ...

Descendants of Cudjo Lewis and Gumpa Lee, survivors of the last American slave ship, embark on a journey to fulfill their ancestors' dream of returning to their ancestral home, accompanied by National ...

It's time to raise the curtain.