Last Survivor of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

SLAVERY 

in the United States = Matilda McCrear / Yoruba girl / came @ age 2 / captured & enslaved with mom and a sister by the army of the Kingdom of Dahomey 

Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis said about the Dahomey warriors attack to his town / source =  interview by Emma Langdon Roche

They were aroused from slumber and in a few minutes death or captivity was upon them; even the infants were torn from their mothers' breasts and carried away. Those who were not killed were overpowered. Dahomey's Amazons vanquished the most stalwart men and bound them as captives.

The Dahomeyans cut off the heads of their dead victims, leaving the bodies where they had fallen. The heads were to be taken home as evidence of individual valor and as trophies to be hung on the Dahomey huts.

Little Matilda was transported in the ship Clotilda / last known vessel that brought slaves into the US / Captain = William Foster / he got 125 slaves at Whydah (Ouidah) for $100 each / wrote in his diary

Having agreeably transacted affairs with the Prince we went to the warehouse where they had in confinement four thousand captives in a state of nudity from which they gave me liberty to select one hundred and twenty-five...

 

Foster departed in a hurry and only took 110 slaves / Matilda McCrear ended alone in Mobile, Alabama / mother and sister were sold away / she didn't see them again / Matilda died in 1940 

Redoshi was thought the last survivor of the Clotilda and the transatlantic slave trade to North America / the new findings happened in 2020 

photos of Matilda & Redoshi in article = Last victim of the transatlantic slave trade discovered

 

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