Cudjo Lewis, believed to be the last living person captured in Africa and brought to America on a slave ship, with his great-granddaughters, c.1927

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Lewis

I’d already heard his story, but you’re probably going to hear a lot more about him now that Zora Neale Hurston’s first book, Barracoon (1931), originally turned down by publishers, is coming out next month:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/books/zora-neale-hurston-new-book.html