Film · 1928

Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

Name: Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves
Director: Zora Neale Hurston
Released: 1928-01-01

5 min · Directed by Zora Neale Hurston

"A five-minute silent film featuring Kossula (also known as Cudjo Lewis), the eighty-eight-year- old man who many believed to be the last survivor of the Middle Passage." -- Autumn Womack

Cast

Cudjoe Lewis

Crew

Director: Zora Neale Hurston

Details

Release: January 1, 1928

Themes

silent film

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