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Subject: Clothilde
Posted by:Doris Moore Steward <wecemoore@yahoo.com> on Mon, 11 Jul 2005, in response to SLAVE SHIP " CLOTHILDE " IN MOBILE,ALABAMA -1859, posted by muhammad abdullah on Tue, 22 Feb 2005
Cudjo Kazoola Lewis died in late 1920
Tarkbar Tribe
114 slaves sold to Captain William Foster for $100 each entered Mobile Bay July 9, 1860
From Benin
Slaves created own neighborhood at Magazine Point
Cudjo started Africatown now a part of Pritchard, Alabama.
Cudjo was from the Tarkbar Tribe.
There is a bronze bust in his honor in Bienville Square.
All from the internet under Cudjo
more information, I am told may be found in the places listed below.
University of South Alabama and
James Lockett - Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
If you find more please share with me.
- Subject: clothilde
Posted by:muhammad abdullah <dawah_ma_90221@yahoo.com> on Mon, 11 Jul 2005, in response to Clothilde, posted by Doris Moore Steward on Mon, 11 Jul 2005
good evening,thank you very much for this valuable information.i will let you know what i come across with the information you have sent me.have you read the book " servants of allah african muslims enslaved i the americas " by sylviane diouf? extremely important documented book.i wonder if the tribe mentioned tarkbar is not takrur?this is a famous muslim africa people.thank you-muhammad abdullah-p.o.box 338-compton,ca.90223
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