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Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

America’s Last Slave Ship: A Landmark Study by Zora Neale Hurston

More than 60 years after the abolition of slavery, the anthropologist and writer, Zora Neale Hurston, located one of the last survivors of the last slave ship to bring captive Africans to the United States.

https://youtu.be/y_M-PfhgMsg

https://www.zoranealehurston.com

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Zora Neale Hurston's Hometown Legacy | The New York Times

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Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 14, 2023

Hurston conducted interviews with Oluale Kossola (renamed Cudjo Lewis) but struggled to publish the interviews as a book in the early 1930s. They were only released to the public in a book called Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” that came out in May of 2018.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5037360/clotilda-oluale-lewis

https://youtu.be/HzFhZMg-awU

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The Clotilda: Oluale (Cudjo) Lewis

Clotilda descendant Cassandra Lewis Wallace told the story of her ancestor Cudjo Lewis.

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Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 14, 2023

The book tells the story of Lewis, who was born Oluale Kossola in what is now the West African country of Benin. A member of the Yoruba people, he was only 19 years old when members of the neighboring Dahomians invaded his village, captured him and others, and marched them to the coast. There, he and about 120 others were sold into slavery and crammed onto the Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the continental United States.

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http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1403

https://www.history.com/news/clotilda-wreck-discovered-last-us-slave-ship

Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 14, 2023

The last known survivor of the last U.S. slave ship died in 1940—75 years after the abolition of slavery. Her name was Matilda McCrear.

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https://www.history.com/news/last-slave-ship-survivor-matilda-maccrear

https://colorlines.com/article/last-known-slave-ship-discovered/

https://from.ncl.ac.uk/the-last-two-transatlantic-slave-trade-survivors

A Survivor of the Last Slave Ship Lived Until 1940

Matilda McCrear lived through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, World War I, the Great Depression and the outbreak of World War II in Europe.

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Show threadAnne Fausto SterlingJan 14, 2023
@Deglassco Wow...thanks for posting this.
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 15, 2023
@faustosterling Thanks for the appreciation.
Show threadAnne Fausto SterlingJan 15, 2023
@Deglassco Oh and I just bought the book on the last voyage, looking forward to reading it. I had missed it when it came out.
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 16, 2023
@faustosterling It’s a great book. Very well written.
Show threadhiding from plagues ☣️♿Jan 14, 2023
@Deglassco reminder that slavery never actually ended
Show threadlolonurseJan 14, 2023
@smollestbunny @Deglassco
It continues in Russia, Turkey, Indonesia, Nigeria, Iran, DR Congo, Sudan, Myanmar & Egypt. Slavery also exists in N. Korea, Eritrea, Burundi, Laos, Philippines. The top 2 countries, by total number of slaves, are India & China.
Since many sex workers are forced & kept against their will, technically the US also still has slavery.
Show threadhiding from plagues ☣️♿Jan 14, 2023
@lolonurse @Deglassco yes sex slaves exist but you are entirely forgetting slavery in agriculture as well
Show threadlolonurseJan 15, 2023
@smollestbunny @Deglassco
No, actually, the countries I listed are agriculture, factory, mining, to mention a few. Then I added, at the end, that the US (among others) actually still has a form of slavery, which is the underground scourge of sexual exploitation. I purposely left that till the end, to separate that form of bondage from the other, more readily recognized/understood slavery.
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 15, 2023
@lolonurse @smollestbunny Indeed.
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 15, 2023
@smollestbunny Something all of us should be cognizant of…
Show thread💙💛AKRoca💙💛Jan 14, 2023
@Deglassco I watched a wonderful documentary on that ship. So informative and inspiring that the hunt for it continued for so long and that the people were so unified and were recognized.
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 15, 2023
@AKRoca Do you have the name of the documentary you watched?
Show thread💙💛AKRoca💙💛Jan 17, 2023
@Deglassco I watched it on Disney plus, but I'm sure it's available elsewhere too:
https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/clotilda-last-american-slave-ship/Mwq704JKbfDa
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 17, 2023
@AKRoca Thanks!
Show thread💙💛AKRoca💙💛Jan 17, 2023
@Deglassco I posted the link I watched it on, but the name of it is Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship
Show threadauthoredbyjames 🌲🏔🌊Jan 15, 2023
@Deglassco just another reminder that the horrors of slavery were recent, it’s not the distant past as many like to say.
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 15, 2023
@authoredbyjames Indeed!
Show threadAnvil of TruthJan 14, 2023
@Deglassco I’ll likely order this book. I fear the prospect of reading it, I fear the tears and I fear the anger that will undoubtedly mix with the other emotions of outrage I feel increasingly as an old fart…
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 15, 2023
@LawrenceShop It is an inspiring story though—-one of resilience, perseverance, and survival.
Show threadCK DexterHavenJan 14, 2023
@Deglassco added to the reading list. Thank you
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 15, 2023
@ckshowalter It’s a great book.
Show threadCK DexterHavenJan 15, 2023
@Deglassco it looks like it. I’ve been listening to the Empire Podcast by @AnitaAnand and William Dalrymple. Which lead me to Empire of Cotton and now I’m bouncing around colonial American slavery
Show threadOwlBowlJan 14, 2023
@Deglassco woah! So native Africans enslaved their own people... :(
Show threadLeft Coast BecJan 14, 2023
@Deglassco This book was absolutely fascinating!
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 15, 2023
@LeftCoastBec yes, it was very well done. Very impressive.
Show threadPatty A. GrayJan 14, 2023
@Deglassco Oh man, thank you! I adore Huston's work. Got to get this book!
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 15, 2023
@Pattyagray You are welcome. I feel the same way.
Show threadpedalerspeaksJan 14, 2023
@Deglassco check out Descendent on Netflix ( documentary about the dependents of those on that ship)
Show threadCheriSwearsJan 15, 2023
@GaryEckstein @Deglassco thanks! Just started watching
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 15, 2023
@GaryEckstein Oh thank you! I will.
Show threadlyind4ceJan 15, 2023

@Deglassco "The only thing permanent is change."

Today people want to go where yesterday's folks feared to be lead.

Tomorrow those who are hosting may beg to be accepted as guests.

Show threadJennifer EbelingJan 15, 2023
@Deglassco Thanks for sharing. The YouTube documentary was excellent. 👏🙌💪🏆
Show threadDr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoJan 15, 2023
@GardenerPodcast No problem and yes, it was.