Last Survivor of US Slave Ships Discovered, 'Redoshi'; Cambridge Univ. Slavery Links

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1. Her existence as the "last" slave was covered up by Zora Neale Hurston

who wrote a book Barracoon. about last slave ship, and a male slave, Kazoola, who she billed as the last slave brought to America, In fact., Hurston had also met Redoshi, in Selma. but did not write about her, for unknown reasons.

both Redoshi and Kossuth ( renamed Cudjo Lewis) were on the same, last ship.
Lewis died 2 years before Redoshi.

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n July 1928, a few months after interviewing Lewis, Hurston wrote to poet Langston Hughes: “Oh! Almost forgot. Found another one of the original Africans about 200 miles upstate on the Tombigbee river. She is most delightful, a better talker than Cudjo ... But no one will ever know about her but us.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/slave-redoshi-sally-smith-barracoon-cudjo-lewis-last-ship-hannah-durkin-slavery-history-alabama-us-a8855481.html

Sally Smith is actually seen in a video on YouTube, at the 2:38 mark, the film is quite blurry and dark, unfortunately.

Very detailed history of what happened to the last group of slaves, who were brought to a port of Mobile, Al, can be found here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africatown