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The last living former slave in Fairmont, Fairmont County, West Virginia. [21] Matilda McCrear: 1857: January 1940: The last known survivor of the Clotilda in 1859–1860, the last trans-Atlantic slave ship to arrive in America from Africa. [22] Redoshi: 1848: 1937: The next to last known survivor of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive ...
Matilda McCrear (c. 1857 – January 13, 1940), born Àbáké, was the last known survivor in the United States of the transatlantic slave trade and the ship Clotilda.She was a Yoruba who was captured and brought to Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama at the age of two with her mother and older sister.
Lewis and fellow Clotilda survivor Abaché (Clara Turner) c. 1914.By then there were eight surviving members of the Clotilda group.. During their time in slavery, Lewis and many of the other Clotilda captives were located at an area north of Mobile known as Magazine Point, the Plateau, or "Meaher's hammock," where the Meahers owned a mill and a shipyard.
List of the last surviving American slaves; Alfred "Teen" Blackburn (died 1951), one of the last surviving enslaved Americans; Cudjoe Lewis (died 1935), one of the last survivors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade; Eliza Moore (died 1948), one of the last living African Americans proven to have been born into slavery in the United States.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Her father's name was Judge Moore and Eliza was his only child which he had in his old age. Moore was born a slave in Montgomery County, Alabama, in 1843. Eliza is considered by many historians as the last certifiable African American ex-slave in America. Moore is the only person to date whose claim can be supported due to adequate documentation.
Redoshi (c. 1848 – 1937) was a West African woman who was enslaved and smuggled to the U.S. state of Alabama as a girl in 1860. Until a later surviving claimant, Matilda McCrear, was announced in 2020, she was considered to have been the last surviving victim of the transatlantic slave trade. [1]
List of the last surviving American slaves; List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon, George Washington's plantation; List of slave owners; Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom; 1926 Slavery Convention, an international treaty; 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery; Comfort women, sex slaves in WWII; Human trafficking