Last surviving slave to have been shipped to the US revealed to be woman who died in 1940 aged 83
The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade has been revealed as a West African woman who died in 1940 aged 83. Historians previously believed the last living slave brought to the United States from Africa was a woman called Redoshi Smith, who died in 1937. But now Matilda McCrear has been revealed as the most … Read more
