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 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

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