Even though slavery was legal at that time in the U.S., the international slave trade was not, and hadn’t been for over 50 years. The Clotilda brought its captives to Alabama in 1860, just a year before the outbreak of the Civil War. There, he and about 120 others were sold into slavery and crammed onto the Clotilda, the last slave ship to reach the continental United States. A member of the Yoruba people, he was only 19 years old when members of the neighboring Dahomian tribe invaded his village, captured him along with others, and marched them to the coast. Hurston’s book tells the story of Lewis, who was born Oluale Kossola in what is now the West African country of Benin. READ MORE: A Survivor of the Last Slave Ship Live Until 1940
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