His name is ('Koo-joe'). This is a very popular name from West Africa. There is actually a place in Key West Florida they call 'Cudjoe Key'. Of course they promote misinformation saying that the name has nothing to do with Africa or they would have to recognize it. I wish Cudjoe could have received a full statue.
I just took a ancestry dna test recently and I'm 38% Benin/Togo this story breaks my heart.The stuff out ancestor endured,I just can't imagine...So 😞 sad
@Ltrain80 Bham asked to be called Cudjo (actually Kodjo, bad transcript) the boy born on Monday. This indicates that his mother was probably Mina from the Mono region (Since his origin take from Bantè Benin Republic) or Ewé or Popo. The Lewis part is "Anglofied" version of Oluwale. His first name was Kossola. Thanks Tola for the Yoruba 101. It is more likely that that name would be Oluwale "God has come home"
@@jamesoyewale6007 Hi James, I understand Yoruba, but my speech is really poor. I decypher that you are telling me that some are named Oluwale and others Oluale...Which is true. My assomption of Oluwale is based on the fact that one of his parents is Gbé. Yoruba/Nago names in Gbé land are often based translations, that is why I assumed Oluwale was probably his name, again could be totally wrong here. Also Oluwale is a popular patronym in Bante (Benin Republic) therefore my conclusion. Sad History will never let us know what it was in end.
wow.. my great grandfather was the preacher on the plantation lynched for being able to read and more important for embracing Masters religion But he taught many to read and write RIP Homer Crenshaw what a brave warrior.. and was turned in by another slave who ran away and captured. proud of him...
@denisemitchell8477 denise, I am so proud of your great grandfather. It's good that he taught many to read and write. It's sad how our relatives and ancestors were treated during that time. Now Ron Desantis had banned black history books from schools and libraries because they don't want their children to feel bad about what their ancestors did to our ancestors. We are not trying to make anyone feel bad we want the history taught and racism confronted. If people don't know the history which is not only black history it's white history because they took part in it. Have a blessed day
My Grandmother sat in my living room and told me many stories about her father and his father came from Germany and such and one of the stories was about Cudjo Lewis coming to their school and talking to them when she was a child. They lived in Plateau and her father and grandfather owned boats they built and had put put motors they pulled Cypress logs from the delta to the cypress mill on Hog Bayou where International paper mill was. They would also go every weekend and set tremble nets with their boats in the delta and catch lots of fish and feed the people who lived on their block. wish I had a picture of that. But Cudjo Lewis came their School and told them his story.
I was born on Front Street in (AFRICA TOWN) Mobile AL in 1970... The street is now named after my Great Aunt, who I am named after, Susie Ansley...My mom used to say we were kin to Cudjo
Wise words from Mr. Israel Lewis remember the past but don't be consume by hate for these pale skin people because hate will enslave and consume you. Honestly I'm struggling with this issue.
My Melanin family please wake up for once. Our Melanin Ancestors were Hebrews the Africans would never sell their own people. Yes our Ancestors look like the Africans but they were Hebrews. We the Hebrews believe in Yahweh and His Son Yeshua. The Africans knew that we were not liked them and that is why they had no problems giving our Ancestors over to the Caucasians Europeans. Now remember our Ancestors were stripped from their Heritage they were Beaten & Brain Washed to believed in the European Caucasian ways. Please read Deuteronomy Chapter 28 on the History of why our Hebrew Ancestors were enslaved. Also read Revelation chapter 2:9. The Churches,Schools and even our families do not even know about our true origin of our Heritage Shalom.
So thankful for your comment, because there is too much of reverse hate going on, which only keeps a wedge between improving race relations. Just remember hate is not from God, but love is, and with love you win everytime. It's easier to hate than love, because you don't have to put any work effort in it. But when you can hold that love in your heart God gives you the victory. And it becomes easier and easier to do, till you get to a point where you know it's the right thing to do. Hate poisons the mind, and blocks God's blessing, because God can't enter into a house[body], of hate.✌❤🙏
Fascinating! Awesome to be told such information. Why don't more know of this sort of thing? It should be taught. So many want statues destroyed and history taken out of books. History needs spoken of, passed along, discussed, not just in one town or one state but across the USA, all walks of life. Thank you for enlightening me and I am glad to have found this education today.
My maiden name is Lewis & my African grandfather was from that area. He was a chef in town but commuted to my Grandfather Martin’s (Native American) farm to be with my grandma & their children.
Visited AfricaTown this past weekend and met a descendant named Charlie Lee Keeby, near the AfricaTown Heritage House. I learned so much from him as he said the stories came from his mom, a Keeby who came from Benin on the Clotilda. Saw Kossula’s bust as well. The place needs socioeconomic reform and for the city to stop encroaching on their land!
Wonderful video such strong people. With ancestry websites and DNA tests people are starting to find out more about their history genealogy. I can understand feelings of rejection. Love and peace.
It truly breaks my heart as to what happened many years ago. I just wish that I would've been alive back then, because I would've done my very best to stop all of that. I do not like racism, prejudices, I definitely cannot stand slave owning, and what ever else that came along with that madness. No Human Being should be sold, enslaved, lynched, and or mistreated. As a child my mom had me watch all of the shows and movies about what happened to the African people that were brought to the US, and held as slaves. I never understood why she did this; until recently. My mother wanted me to know about what happened to the African people that were brought here to the US and made into slaves so that I would understand everything. She wanted me to understand how cruel people were back in those days, and how cruel they were to her as well just because of her Cuban culture. Growing up I was deprived of my Cuban culture because of what happened to my mom and how she was treated back in the early 60s in Louisiana by my father's family. I recently found out the my biological father's siblings mistreated my two younger brothers, because their first language was Spanish. My biological father is French, English and Scottish from Louisiana; but my mother is Cuban from Florida. My father's family literally chased my mom away and I know now that she was also mistreated because of her Cuban culture. Growing up, I never knew my father. But I knew that he never wanted me. For many years I always wanted to belong to his family; until early this year in 2023 when I actually went to Louisiana and stayed for a month with my youngest brother. I found out so much about my father's side, and I actually want NO part of that family. They are all racist, and liars.
WOW That guy was literally bucking his eyes and saying “All’s white peoples ain’t bad. It was the good white peoples that had help’did us. I’s was not a black slave, i’s just a slave who happens to be black.”
A sad beautiful story. Just learned of Africa Town via Netflix recently. Plan on visiting Africa town this summer. "Africa is the cradle of civilization. We have our roots there. If we can't know Africa we can't know ourselves. " Stephen Biko
It's also Ewe. Ewe people are from Ghana to Benin. Remember the colonizers made the lines and separated one tribe in 3 different countries. Tons of Yoruba in Cotonou Benin.
Loves to visit...my husband lived here as lil boy...that's was my husband's church....we loves to visit...But Black people can rebuild this lil town...Why cant black men go through n tear down old trash and burn it...help clean up and rebuild....
The descendants of the white business man (Maeher) still own 14% of the land and assets of Africa Town. They inherited millions and meanwhile the kidnapped are STILL living in poverty.
@@jalenjackson5653 I am a descendants as well. My grandfather was Charleston Lewis. Not sure of the exact town he was born but he lived in Theodore Alabama.
My family have land in Ga that was handed down from our ancestors owner! A slave owner gave my ancestors the land. Every year they have a Wild Game Festival on that land . If they catch it, they cook it, from snake to bear. Which is crazy to me being from Miami, Fl!
"In April or May 1860, his village was attacked and Lewis was taken prisoner by female warriors led by King Glele of Dahomey, during an annual dry-season raid for slaves." Quick question, was Viola Davis there at the statue unveiling? Asking for a friend...
The relative mentioned "the people of mobile had their own language". I am very interested in exactly what that language was? Hernando de Soto first arrived there in 1540 (Spanish), then the French in 18th century, then the British after the French and Indian war. I saw an interview from a couple who stated, "They was already there when the Coltilda landed". Already there? 🤔
WTI investments..I think you a bit confused.. the cotilda was a slave ship..and we are talking about two different things. You are talking about a Spanish Conquistador whom was probably paid by his queen in Spain to explore what is now america.and the french..and the british..which has nothing to do with african slavery .ok? .when the relative said "the people of mobile had their own language " he may have been talking about the African cudjoe Lewis dialect and some of his African American descendants dialect ways of talking and describing things. Your subject has nothing to do with the survivors of a slave ship and descendants of that survivor.
Very interesting being that all his children died at young ages and he came across the ocean with no relatives.. LOL And he would be an ancestor not a descendant
Yes biggest betrayal is from ur very own people@2:30 btw. Am looking for the actual interview to hear him talking, wasn't their an actual physical recording of it?? Am not getting it.
DOMINIQUE BROWN I found the most complete answer to that exact question in the book ‘Dreams of Africa in Alabama’ The author has done a masterful job (it’s very well written and researched). The poor souls who were sold to the Clotilda captain were “prisoners of war”. (That is, If any sane person can consider innocent civilians: children, teens & women {not soldiers!} as POWs😞) As such, they were the property of the King of Dahomey. They came from several different tribes, they spoke different languages. Their religions were Islam, Vodun, or the Orisa. (I looked Orisa up and it’s a beautiful religion, reminds me of the belief system of Native Americans. It’s unique and matriarchal based. Look it up.) Below, I copied and pasted a section that comes directly from the book (Dreams of Africa in Alabama): “Their story started in West Africa, in the Bight of Benin, a region known, ominously, as the Slave Coast. From small towns in the countries that are today Benin and Nigeria, young adults, teenagers, and children were brought to the coast and locked up in a slave pen, a barracoon, in Ouidah. They had names like Kossola, Abache, Abile, Omolabi, Kupollee, Kêhounco, and Arzuma. They were farmers, fishermen, and traders; they followed Islam, Vodun, or the Orisa. Some had been married, others were too young to have gone through initiation. The largest group was made up of prisoners of war captured by the Dahomian army during a dawn attack on their town. The rest of their companions were victims of kidnappings or slave raids. They spoke various languages, had lived in different parts of the region, and had different cultures and experiences. But in the barracoon and on the Clotilda, they created a strong, tight-knit community.” -from ‘Dreams of Africa in Alabama’ by Slyvianne A. Diouf Hope this helps💖
He was a Yoruba from Dahomey (Dahomey has more people of the Fon ethnic group than Yorubas, but there is also a region there where Yoruba live, having migrated from nearby Nigeria a few centuries ago-and that is the region he and most of the other Africans that founded Africatown came from; many were Yoruba and some were Fon). There were generally few Yoruba brought to the United States (most of the Yoruba enslaved in the transatlantic slave trade ended up in Cuba and Brazil), but the ship that brought the Africans that founded Africatown (in Alabama) was an exception, and many of those Africans were Yoruba. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Lewis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africatown
@@skellagyook He was specifically from a region of Bénin called Bantè. That region has a mix of Nago/Yoruba people and Mina from the nothern Mono region. It is a mistake to see actual borders of today as the limitations of ethnic territories. Remember that the Berlin Conference took into account the splitting of ethnic groups into different territories to avoid rebellion and have people of different ethnic background into the same country. The Yoruba/Nago people did not "migrate" into Benin. They were always there. Area like Porto Novo, Sakéte, Pobè, Ketou, Bantè have always been Nago people country. The Egoun people actually invaded Porto Novo with migration from Allada and chased the Nago away only to accept the Migration from Yorubas from Oyo 300 years later.
Kodjo is NOT only from Ghana. It is a name found in divers Gbé/Qua languages therefore can be found from Cote d'Ivoire to Bénin. Ewe, Mina and Popo in Benin /Togo The twi language in Ghana N'zima people in Côte d'Ivoire
@@sismeo1 That is true: re: the name Kodjo-I think it may be originally of Akan origin, but, like some other names, has been adopted by various Gbe and (non-Akan) Kwa groups. But apparently, his real name was not Kodjo, but Kossola or Oluale Kossola, which, I believe, is a Yoruba name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Lewis#Early_life_and_enslavement
It's not Cudjo nor Kazoola white people. Cudjo is Ghanian-It is Oluale Kassola which is a Yoruba name. The Yorubas are mostly in Nigeria. Do your research.
2:25 All "black people" do not come from the same bloodline; African (Hamites) sold Hebrews (Shemites) aka Devarim 28:15-68 to Arabs (Ishmael), Europeans (Japheth), and "jews" (AshkeNazi's). *The Transatlantic Slave Trade = Devarim **28:15**-68 ~ Bereshit **15:12**-14*
Cudjoe kossola oluale Lewis c'est le dernier esclave survivant du venu de bantè Dahomey actuel République du Bénin département de collines au quartier kossola et de même que Redoshi ils tous venus du Dahomey actuel République du Bénin les arrières petits fils de kossola cudjoe Lewis sont venus lui rendre hommage en plantant une statue en son honneur
Wow, things have regressed since 2017. This was a real, open and frank talk about race, not the simplified 'white man bad' version that has taken hold now.
white man still bad lol nah for real its okay....we all have work to do on our selves and breaking toxic cycles of oppression, entitlement, and generational curses
Racism everywhere Montagnard we have dark , brow , light skin Vietnamese people not acceptable, go to Central highland where the Montagnard indigenous live none of us work with Vietnamese government, bank , hospitals , shopping ,movies etc racism is hatred.
My family have land in Ga that was handed down from our ancestors owner! A slave owner gave my ancestors the land. Every year they have a Wild Game Festival on that land . If they catch it, they cook it, from snake to bear. Which is crazy to me being from Miami, Fl!
His grandson is able to go back home, and know his family. Many of us only dream of that type of information. Love this video!
EXACTLY what I was thinking. Gorgeous.
Check out Thornton (2020) history of West Central Africa
Green (2021) Fistful of shells
His name is ('Koo-joe'). This is a very popular name from West Africa. There is actually a place in Key West Florida they call 'Cudjoe Key'. Of course they promote misinformation saying that the name has nothing to do with Africa or they would have to recognize it. I wish Cudjoe could have received a full statue.
I just took a ancestry dna test recently and I'm 38% Benin/Togo this story breaks my heart.The stuff out ancestor endured,I just can't imagine...So 😞 sad
MY TEST CAME BACK WITH MY BEING FROM THE TIKAR PEOPLE OF CAMEROON...African Ancestry dna test
I’m 24% Benin
Stacy Stevens as false as your statement
Stacy Stevens As real as the air in your head
@@judahsue1219 i just received my test and I'm 30% Ashanti tribe of Ghana, 45% Igbo tribe of Nigeria and rest other tribes in West Africa
Real name Oluale Kossola, Oluale means the king of the night, while Kossola means to make contact with wealth in Yoruba, Yoruba lesson 101.
Why are they calling him by the slave name they are full of shit
@Ltrain80 Bham
asked to be called Cudjo (actually Kodjo, bad transcript) the boy born on Monday. This indicates that his mother was probably Mina from the Mono region (Since his origin take from Bantè Benin Republic) or Ewé or Popo. The Lewis part is "Anglofied" version of Oluwale.
His first name was Kossola.
Thanks Tola for the Yoruba 101. It is more likely that that name would be Oluwale "God has come home"
awon kan ni 'Oluwale' ni baba na n je, awon kan si ni 'Oluale' but thanks for the effort. it means something.
Tola I’m so down for Yoruba lessons if you teach privately.
@@jamesoyewale6007 Hi James, I understand Yoruba, but my speech is really poor. I decypher that you are telling me that some are named Oluwale and others Oluale...Which is true.
My assomption of Oluwale is based on the fact that one of his parents is Gbé. Yoruba/Nago names in Gbé land are often based translations, that is why I assumed Oluwale was probably his name, again could be totally wrong here. Also Oluwale is a popular patronym in Bante (Benin Republic) therefore my conclusion. Sad History will never let us know what it was in end.
wow..
my great grandfather was the preacher on the plantation lynched for being able to read and more important for embracing Masters religion
But he taught many to read and write
RIP Homer Crenshaw what a brave warrior..
and was turned in by another slave who ran away and captured.
proud of him...
What was his name
Thank you for sharing your story Denise Mitchell.
@denisemitchell8477 denise, I am so proud of your great grandfather. It's good that he taught many to read and write. It's sad how our relatives and ancestors were treated during that time. Now Ron Desantis had banned black history books from schools and libraries because they don't want their children to feel bad about what their ancestors did to our ancestors. We are not trying to make anyone feel bad we want the history taught and racism confronted. If people don't know the history which is not only black history it's white history because they took part in it. Have a blessed day
I am so sorry to hear of what happened to your great grandfather. That is so sad.
My Grandmother sat in my living room and told me many stories about her father and his father came from Germany and such and one of the stories was about Cudjo Lewis coming to their school and talking to them when she was a child.
They lived in Plateau and her father and grandfather owned boats they built and had put put motors they pulled Cypress logs from the delta to the cypress mill on Hog Bayou where International paper mill was. They would also go every weekend and set tremble nets with their boats in the delta and catch lots of fish and feed the people who lived on their block. wish I had a picture of that. But Cudjo Lewis came their School and told them his story.
Really like the part about not judging a person by the color of skin.
@chamboyette853: Me too.
Totally agree....
Very profound.
I was born on Front Street in (AFRICA TOWN) Mobile AL in 1970... The street is now named after my Great Aunt, who I am named after, Susie Ansley...My mom used to say we were kin to Cudjo
Me too. I have a sister with your name😍
Wow.... That's interesting. It's worth researching.
@@keepyurheadup TANGIE! 😂
Wise words from Mr. Israel Lewis remember the past but don't be consume by hate for these pale skin people because hate will enslave and consume you. Honestly I'm struggling with this issue.
Garry Joseph Divide and conquer was in Africa First. Our People were put in tribes to be against each other.
My Melanin family please wake up for once. Our Melanin Ancestors were Hebrews the Africans would never sell their own people. Yes our Ancestors look like the Africans but they were Hebrews. We the Hebrews believe in Yahweh and His Son Yeshua. The Africans knew that we were not liked them and that is why they had no problems giving our Ancestors over to the Caucasians Europeans. Now remember our Ancestors were stripped from their Heritage they were Beaten & Brain Washed to believed in the European Caucasian ways. Please read Deuteronomy Chapter 28 on the History of why our Hebrew Ancestors were enslaved. Also read Revelation chapter 2:9. The Churches,Schools and even our families do not even know about our true origin of our Heritage Shalom.
So true....Remember , but dont get on this hate ship now.....dont promote hate
@@lastdays3148 not true...dont try to change us....they was AFRICANS not hebrews......stop lying
So thankful for your comment, because there is too much of reverse hate going on, which only keeps a wedge between improving race relations. Just remember hate is not from God, but love is, and with love you win everytime. It's easier to hate than love, because you don't have to put any work effort in it. But when you can hold that love in your heart God gives you the victory. And it becomes easier and easier to do, till you get to a point where you know it's the right thing to do. Hate poisons the mind, and blocks God's blessing, because God can't enter into a house[body], of hate.✌❤🙏
He is my great great great great great great grandfather
So is he to me thats my grandfather dad dad...my grandfather from.mobile Alabama
truth you can't depend on your color they are the one who handed us over but no one ever wants to talk about that
Oh we talk about it,but behind closed doors
@@ephecarrey5177 Why behind closed doors?
@@rachelzol6520 maybe because racist white people would use it as a way to absolve themselves from any guilt about slavery
@@mickey1627 Thank you for educating by mere explanation. Some don't get it yet.
Fascinating! Awesome to be told such information. Why don't more know of this sort of thing? It should be taught. So many want statues destroyed and history taken out of books. History needs spoken of, passed along, discussed, not just in one town or one state but across the USA, all walks of life. Thank you for enlightening me and I am glad to have found this education today.
My maiden name is Lewis & my African grandfather was from that area. He was a chef in town but commuted to my Grandfather Martin’s (Native American) farm to be with my grandma & their children.
His grandson is too forgiving Cudjoe is rolling in his grave. We demand #Reparations
He's my family decedent.
Your memory and spirit lives on Cudjo ☻
Be proud!
Awesome.
Panama Black he is my great great. Grandfather!
Cudjo is my great great great grandfather
A lot of wisdom here. I've watched the story of Cudjo Lewis, and it is a deeply profound, historically important and moving story.
Hi there… what is the name of the story you watched?
Visited AfricaTown this past weekend and met a descendant named Charlie Lee Keeby, near the AfricaTown Heritage House. I learned so much from him as he said the stories came from his mom, a Keeby who came from Benin on the Clotilda. Saw Kossula’s bust as well. The place needs socioeconomic reform and for the city to stop encroaching on their land!
Wonderful video such strong people. With ancestry websites and DNA tests people are starting to find out more about their history genealogy. I can understand feelings of rejection. Love and peace.
It truly breaks my heart as to what happened many years ago. I just wish that I would've been alive back then, because I would've done my very best to stop all of that. I do not like racism, prejudices, I definitely cannot stand slave owning, and what ever else that came along with that madness. No Human Being should be sold, enslaved, lynched, and or mistreated. As a child my mom had me watch all of the shows and movies about what happened to the African people that were brought to the US, and held as slaves.
I never understood why she did this; until recently. My mother wanted me to know about what happened to the African people that were brought here to the US and made into slaves so that I would understand everything. She wanted me to understand how cruel people were back in those days, and how cruel they were to her as well just because of her Cuban culture.
Growing up I was deprived of my Cuban culture because of what happened to my mom and how she was treated back in the early 60s in Louisiana by my father's family.
I recently found out the my biological father's siblings mistreated my two younger brothers, because their first language was Spanish. My biological father is French, English and Scottish from Louisiana; but my mother is Cuban from Florida. My father's family literally chased my mom away and I know now that she was also mistreated because of her Cuban culture.
Growing up, I never knew my father. But I knew that he never wanted me.
For many years I always wanted to belong to his family; until early this year in 2023 when I actually went to Louisiana and stayed for a month with my youngest brother. I found out so much about my father's side, and I actually want NO part of that family. They are all racist, and liars.
WOW That guy was literally bucking his eyes and saying
“All’s white peoples ain’t bad. It was the good white peoples that had help’did us. I’s was not a black slave, i’s just a slave who happens to be black.”
You want everybody to speak ahistorically because of your own significant biases. Never become a historian, my friend
Love this guy. Such strength & knowledge...
A sad beautiful story. Just learned of Africa Town via Netflix recently. Plan on visiting Africa town this summer.
"Africa is the cradle of civilization. We have our roots there. If we can't know Africa we can't know ourselves. " Stephen Biko
Can she not pronounce "Cood-joe" a little care will tell u your pronouncing it wrong
It is cud- jo.
Well as a self-provlaimed name expert (I know) KoJo the Ghanaian name of where he's from would be said coa-joe
I’m very confused because the name Kojo or Cudjoe is from the Akan naming system, signifying that one is a male born on Monday. Very interesting.
Pink and Black Girl okay yes that’s true. That’s true
It's also Ewe. Ewe people are from Ghana to Benin. Remember the colonizers made the lines and separated one tribe in 3 different countries. Tons of Yoruba in Cotonou Benin.
Loves to visit...my husband lived here as lil boy...that's was my husband's church....we loves to visit...But Black people can rebuild this lil town...Why cant black men go through n tear down old trash and burn it...help clean up and rebuild....
AFRICA TOWN! Mobile.
How could displaced people sold by other humans and survived by their remnants be considered as "treasure"?
The descendants of the white business man (Maeher) still own 14% of the land and assets of Africa Town. They inherited millions and meanwhile the kidnapped are STILL living in poverty.
They sure do!!!!
Really like this man, Israel Lewis. Wish his insights were better known to all Americans. Peace, Brother.
And thats why I refuse to watch "The Woman King"
Questlove is a descendant.
The asiatic Lion yes quest love is my cousin
@@jalenjackson5653 I am a descendants as well. My grandfather was Charleston Lewis. Not sure of the exact town he was born but he lived in Theodore Alabama.
@@8352iowa yes we are cousins he was born in plateau (Africatown)
We use to have reunions in Chicago and it was Lewis, Lloyd, Jackson on the t-shirts
They should help.. we were all kidnapped.. we are still enslaved..
Reparations please!
Africans can’t get reparations in America. Makes no sense
My family have land in Ga that was handed down from our ancestors owner! A slave owner gave my ancestors the land. Every year they have a Wild Game Festival on that land . If they catch it, they cook it, from snake to bear. Which is crazy to me being from Miami, Fl!
Awesome
that my great uncle
Israel Lewis is your Great Uncle? And is he still living in Africatown?
He is my great 5x Uncle. And no I’m not just trolling.
Cudjoe lewis
Jalen Jackson Hey we are finna shot a documentary in Africatown. If u interested contact me.
WOOOOOOOW I don't get a contact though. I was being serious when I said that.
"In April or May 1860, his village was attacked and Lewis was taken prisoner by female warriors led by King Glele of Dahomey, during an annual dry-season raid for slaves." Quick question, was Viola Davis there at the statue unveiling? Asking for a friend...
honorable
The relative mentioned "the people of mobile had their own language". I am very interested in exactly what that language was? Hernando de Soto first arrived there in 1540 (Spanish), then the French in 18th century, then the British after the French and Indian war. I saw an interview from a couple who stated, "They was already there when the Coltilda landed". Already there? 🤔
WTI investments..I think you a bit confused.. the cotilda was a slave ship..and we are talking about two different things. You are talking about a Spanish Conquistador whom was probably paid by his queen in Spain to explore what is now america.and the french..and the british..which has nothing to do with african slavery .ok? .when the relative said "the people of mobile had their own language " he may have been talking about the African cudjoe Lewis dialect and some of his African American descendants dialect ways of talking and describing things. Your subject has nothing to do with the survivors of a slave ship and descendants of that survivor.
Everybody is claiming him as a family descendant ,interesting
I know right?
Very interesting being that all his children died at young ages and he came across the ocean with no relatives.. LOL And he would be an ancestor not a descendant
The grandson sounds like a sell out
Why? Because he's not consumed by hate like you?
@@tvs9978 Sell outs usually take up for each other
@@thecardiarliveshow2806 you're a sad person
Amen ❤🎉
Over history, many have had to leave their homes, their ultimate security & memories, but Enter into no rights in addition?...!!
Yes biggest betrayal is from ur very own people@2:30 btw. Am looking for the actual interview to hear him talking, wasn't their an actual physical recording of it?? Am not getting it.
so before christianity was forced upon our ancestors what was our religion?????
DOMINIQUE BROWN Judaism
DOMINIQUE BROWN depends on wat tribe ur specific ancestors are from, Judaism is definitely one of them Ethiopia’s in Africa
DOMINIQUE BROWN I found the most complete answer to that exact question in the book ‘Dreams of Africa in Alabama’
The author has done a masterful job (it’s very well written and researched).
The poor souls who were sold to the Clotilda captain were “prisoners of war”. (That is, If any sane person can consider innocent civilians: children, teens & women {not soldiers!} as POWs😞) As such, they were the property of the King of Dahomey. They came from several different tribes, they spoke different languages. Their religions were Islam, Vodun, or the Orisa. (I looked Orisa up and it’s a beautiful religion, reminds me of the belief system of Native Americans. It’s unique and matriarchal based. Look it up.)
Below, I copied and pasted a section that comes directly from the book (Dreams of Africa in Alabama):
“Their story started in West Africa, in the Bight of Benin, a region known, ominously, as the Slave Coast. From small towns in the countries that are today Benin and Nigeria, young adults, teenagers, and children were brought to the coast and locked up in a slave pen, a barracoon, in Ouidah.
They had names like Kossola, Abache, Abile, Omolabi, Kupollee, Kêhounco, and Arzuma.
They were farmers, fishermen, and traders; they followed Islam, Vodun, or the Orisa.
Some had been married, others were too young to have gone through initiation.
The largest group was made up of prisoners of war captured by the Dahomian army during a dawn attack on their town. The rest of their companions were victims of kidnappings or slave raids. They spoke various languages, had lived in different parts of the region, and had different cultures and experiences. But in the barracoon and on the Clotilda, they created a strong, tight-knit community.”
-from ‘Dreams of Africa in Alabama’
by Slyvianne A. Diouf
Hope this helps💖
That is my family name my mother’s father was Arnold Cudjoe
Did Oluale Kassola mention the Mino, or Minon, the Dahomey Amazons who captured him ?
Kojo is a name from Ghana
You lie he is from Benin
He was a Yoruba from Dahomey (Dahomey has more people of the Fon ethnic group than Yorubas, but there is also a region there where Yoruba live, having migrated from nearby Nigeria a few centuries ago-and that is the region he and most of the other Africans that founded Africatown came from; many were Yoruba and some were Fon). There were generally few Yoruba brought to the United States (most of the Yoruba enslaved in the transatlantic slave trade ended up in Cuba and Brazil), but the ship that brought the Africans that founded Africatown (in Alabama) was an exception, and many of those Africans were Yoruba.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Lewis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africatown
@@skellagyook He was specifically from a region of Bénin called Bantè. That region has a mix of Nago/Yoruba people and Mina from the nothern Mono region. It is a mistake to see actual borders of today as the limitations of ethnic territories. Remember that the Berlin Conference took into account the splitting of ethnic groups into different territories to avoid rebellion and have people of different ethnic background into the same country.
The Yoruba/Nago people did not "migrate" into Benin. They were always there. Area like Porto Novo, Sakéte, Pobè, Ketou, Bantè have always been Nago people country. The Egoun people actually invaded Porto Novo with migration from Allada and chased the Nago away only to accept the Migration from Yorubas from Oyo 300 years later.
Kodjo is NOT only from Ghana. It is a name found in divers Gbé/Qua languages therefore can be found from Cote d'Ivoire to Bénin.
Ewe, Mina and Popo in Benin /Togo
The twi language in Ghana
N'zima people in Côte d'Ivoire
@@sismeo1 That is true: re: the name Kodjo-I think it may be originally of Akan origin, but, like some other names, has been adopted by various Gbe and (non-Akan) Kwa groups. But apparently, his real name was not Kodjo, but Kossola or Oluale Kossola, which, I believe, is a Yoruba name.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Lewis#Early_life_and_enslavement
Why does she pronounce cudjo as “cujjo”
This is social structure, who are we to other people.
Aleluya. Aleluya
Cud’o Lewis ⭐️♥️🇨🇦
My great great grandfather this is...
Rip
Great Great Grand son
Kudjo Kazulu
The way she pronounced his name 🤦🏾♀️💀
What else could you do
Kujo or koojo phonetically
They're pronouncing it right. It's a Ghanaian name
It's not Cudjo nor Kazoola white people. Cudjo is Ghanian-It is Oluale Kassola which is a Yoruba name. The Yorubas are mostly in Nigeria. Do your research.
He might be a Ghanaian,because his name is a Ghanaian name from origin
2:25 All "black people" do not come from the same bloodline;
African (Hamites) sold Hebrews (Shemites) aka Devarim 28:15-68 to Arabs (Ishmael), Europeans (Japheth), and "jews" (AshkeNazi's).
*The Transatlantic Slave Trade = Devarim **28:15**-68 ~ Bereshit **15:12**-14*
Cudjoe kossola oluale Lewis c'est le dernier esclave survivant du venu de bantè Dahomey actuel République du Bénin département de collines au quartier kossola et de même que Redoshi ils tous venus du Dahomey actuel République du Bénin les arrières petits fils de kossola cudjoe Lewis sont venus lui rendre hommage en plantant une statue en son honneur
Coojo not cud
Wow, things have regressed since 2017. This was a real, open and frank talk about race, not the simplified 'white man bad' version that has taken hold now.
white man still bad lol nah for real its okay....we all have work to do on our selves and breaking toxic cycles of oppression, entitlement, and generational curses
Racism everywhere Montagnard we have dark , brow , light skin Vietnamese people not acceptable, go to Central highland where the Montagnard indigenous live none of us work with Vietnamese government, bank , hospitals , shopping ,movies etc racism is hatred.
Indoctrination extraordinaire 😑
Smh
Not Africans, but Hebrews got off of that ship.
Man, I pity you
@@sismeo1 Bruh...
So disrespectful…
Cuh joe lol
I hope he treated those little girls well cos they don't look happy. I don't like the picture.
Stop projecting your trauma
My family have land in Ga that was handed down from our ancestors owner! A slave owner gave my ancestors the land. Every year they have a Wild Game Festival on that land . If they catch it, they cook it, from snake to bear. Which is crazy to me being from Miami, Fl!