The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced

History.com ^ | 3 May 2018 | BECKY LITTLE

[DUMBGRUNT]

Roughly 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located the last surviving captive of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the United States. ... In fact, they are only now being released to the public in a book called Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” that comes out on May 8, 2018... he was only 19 years old when members of the neighboring Dahomian tribe captured him and took him 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.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Wow, the ship just surfaced?!? ;^)

[fieldmarshaldj]

The claim on Wikipedia said they thought it was the Clotilda, but on closer inspection, it was too large to be that ship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotilda_(slave_ship)

[wardaddy]

Right thread this time..lol

To: Pelham
Someone freeped me

How do we know this slave was genuinely on the last slave ship ....

The Clotilda saga is rife with second guessing

Good point

89 posted on 5/13/2018, 3:16:56 AM by wardaddy (Reward for young runaway goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: Pelha

[Candor7]

Glenelg, Scotland

The Clearances?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

No it was in 1836, when the New Brunswick Land Company was settling that Canadian province with people from Great Britian. They brought people from the Western Highlands of Scotland, none of whom spoke English , only Gaelic,promising them them land if they worked out their indentures.

These hardy Scots were located in a wilderness area without shelter or tools in October, having sailed out of Greenoch on the barque Royal Adelaide.They were given log shacks without sealed windows or doors, no tools and little food. Then they were left. The small group of Scots numbered 120 and half of them had died by Spring. My ancestor , Hugh Alexander MacDonald was one of the survivors.He broke his indenture and went rogue, leaving the land he was indentured to clear and farm, sought employment as a self proclaimed free man, having to keep one eye over his shoulder for fear that he would be arrested and jailed by the Crown. So he was self trained in arms, as were his whole family. As a result no one came after him, or leastwise, none survived to tell about it if they did come after him.

Ever since then our whole extended family has an abiding distrust of government and its agents, we want little or nothing to do with them. Our family rule: “The government that governs least , governs best.”

http://archives.gnb.ca/exhibits/plannedsettlements/TextViewer.aspx?culture=en-CA&t=Stanley&p=9of20

[hal ogen]

Many were sold to south American,central American and Carribean countries.

[elpadre]

Once while down in some of the Caribbean islands I remarked about the unusual good physiques. The native black tavern owner told me the reason for that is because when the slave ships on their way to the US stopped for provisions they would sell some of the cargo (slaves) to make payment. The buyers would select the best looking males for work and in the case of women, the best for childbearing so as to grow their investment.

[colorado tanker]

I find this mentions an interesting detail that he was captured by another tribe before being sold off to come to the US, funny I thought some white guy captured him and brought him here.

The white guy slavers were not going to do the dirty work.

[JesusIsLord]

I generally agree with everything you said. The point I was trying to make is that the love of money is color blind. There were black, brown and white actors who made American slavery possible.

As far as degree of culpibility, I take a queue from Jesus: "Jesus answered, "You (Pilate) would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you (the Jewish leadership) is guilty of a greater sin." - John 19:11

[ladyjane]

Funny that blacks are not upset at the other blacks that beat their tribes and sold them into slavery.

Funny that blacks are not upset at the thousands of other blacks who were slave owners and slave breeders.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Fascinating article, and I’m glad that Cudjo’s testimony was reported in dialect.

[piasa]

They have since found another ship that fits the description