Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves

Name: Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves
Released: 1928

1928· 0h 5m

Directed by Zora Neale Hurston

Reviews

Overview

"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

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