Slavery

Redoshi  [Sally Smith]

(c. 1848 – 1937)  West African

America’s Last Slave

Redoshi (c. 1848 – 1937), a West African woman taken into slavery, identified as “Aunt Sally Smith”
in The Negro Farmer (1938) by U.S. Department of Agriculture [Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons]

 

– – – Websites – – –

Daley, Jason. “Researcher Identifies the Last Living Survivor of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” SmartNews, April 5, 2019.

Harriot, Michael. “Erased From History: Meet Redoshi, the Last Survivor of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,” The Root, April 03, 2019.

Lusher, Adam. “Found on film: the last survivor of the final slave ship from Africa to the US,” Independent, April 5, 2019.

Redoshi – Wikipedia Commons

– – – Videos – – –

This Woman is Believed to be America’s Last Slave – [Min: 3:58]

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