Cudjo Lewis in Africa Town

Cudjo Lewis at his home in Africa Town (now Africatown), in the late 1920s. Lewis was among the last survivors of the group of enslaved Africans brought illegally to the Mobile area on the Clotilda, the last ship to bring captives to the United States.

Cudjo Lewis at Africatown in Mobile, Alabama
Courtesy of Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama
Cudjo Lewis at Africatown in Mobile, Alabama