EXACTLY what I was thinking. Gorgeous. Check out Thornton (2020) history of West Central Africa Green (2021) Fistful of shells

MY TEST CAME BACK WITH MY BEING FROM THE TIKAR PEOPLE OF CAMEROON...African Ancestry dna test

I’m 24% Benin

Stacy Stevens as false as your statement

Stacy Stevens As real as the air in your head

@@judahsue1219 i just received my test and I'm 30% Ashanti tribe of Ghana, 45% Igbo tribe of Nigeria and rest other tribes in West Africa

Why are they calling him by the slave name they are full of shit

@Ltrain80 Bham asked to be called Cudjo (actually Kodjo, bad transcript) the boy born on Monday. This indicates that his mother was probably Mina from the Mono region (Since his origin take from Bantè Benin Republic) or Ewé or Popo. The Lewis part is "Anglofied" version of Oluwale. His first name was Kossola. Thanks Tola for the Yoruba 101. It is more likely that that name would be Oluwale "God has come home"

awon kan ni 'Oluwale' ni baba na n je, awon kan si ni 'Oluale' but thanks for the effort. it means something.

Tola I’m so down for Yoruba lessons if you teach privately.

@@jamesoyewale6007 Hi James, I understand Yoruba, but my speech is really poor. I decypher that you are telling me that some are named Oluwale and others Oluale...Which is true. My assomption of Oluwale is based on the fact that one of his parents is Gbé. Yoruba/Nago names in Gbé land are often based translations, that is why I assumed Oluwale was probably his name, again could be totally wrong here. Also Oluwale is a popular patronym in Bante (Benin Republic) therefore my conclusion. Sad History will never let us know what it was in end.

What was his name

Thank you for sharing your story Denise Mitchell.

@denisemitchell8477 denise, I am so proud of your great grandfather. It's good that he taught many to read and write. It's sad how our relatives and ancestors were treated during that time. Now Ron Desantis had banned black history books from schools and libraries because they don't want their children to feel bad about what their ancestors did to our ancestors. We are not trying to make anyone feel bad we want the history taught and racism confronted. If people don't know the history which is not only black history it's white history because they took part in it. Have a blessed day

I am so sorry to hear of what happened to your great grandfather. That is so sad.

@chamboyette853: Me too.

Totally agree....

Very profound.

Me too. I have a sister with your name😍

Wow.... That's interesting. It's worth researching.

@@keepyurheadup TANGIE! 😂

Garry Joseph Divide and conquer was in Africa First. Our People were put in tribes to be against each other.

My Melanin family please wake up for once. Our Melanin Ancestors were Hebrews the Africans would never sell their own people. Yes our Ancestors look like the Africans but they were Hebrews. We the Hebrews believe in Yahweh and His Son Yeshua. The Africans knew that we were not liked them and that is why they had no problems giving our Ancestors over to the Caucasians Europeans. Now remember our Ancestors were stripped from their Heritage they were Beaten & Brain Washed to believed in the European Caucasian ways. Please read Deuteronomy Chapter 28 on the History of why our Hebrew Ancestors were enslaved. Also read Revelation chapter 2:9. The Churches,Schools and even our families do not even know about our true origin of our Heritage Shalom.

So true....Remember , but dont get on this hate ship now.....dont promote hate

@@lastdays3148 not true...dont try to change us....they was AFRICANS not hebrews......stop lying

So thankful for your comment, because there is too much of reverse hate going on, which only keeps a wedge between improving race relations. Just remember hate is not from God, but love is, and with love you win everytime. It's easier to hate than love, because you don't have to put any work effort in it. But when you can hold that love in your heart God gives you the victory. And it becomes easier and easier to do, till you get to a point where you know it's the right thing to do. Hate poisons the mind, and blocks God's blessing, because God can't enter into a house[body], of hate.✌❤🙏

So is he to me thats my grandfather dad dad...my grandfather from.mobile Alabama

Hi there… what is the name of the story you watched?

Oh we talk about it,but behind closed doors

@@ephecarrey5177 Why behind closed doors?

@@rachelzol6520 maybe because racist white people would use it as a way to absolve themselves from any guilt about slavery

@@mickey1627 Thank you for educating by mere explanation. Some don't get it yet.

Your memory and spirit lives on Cudjo ☻

Be proud!

Awesome.

Panama Black he is my great great. Grandfather!

Cudjo is my great great great grandfather

Pink and Black Girl okay yes that’s true. That’s true

It's also Ewe. Ewe people are from Ghana to Benin. Remember the colonizers made the lines and separated one tribe in 3 different countries. Tons of Yoruba in Cotonou Benin.

They sure do!!!!

You want everybody to speak ahistorically because of your own significant biases. Never become a historian, my friend

The asiatic Lion yes quest love is my cousin

@@jalenjackson5653 I am a descendants as well. My grandfather was Charleston Lewis. Not sure of the exact town he was born but he lived in Theodore Alabama.

@@8352iowa yes we are cousins he was born in plateau (Africatown)

We use to have reunions in Chicago and it was Lewis, Lloyd, Jackson on the t-shirts

It is cud- jo.

Well as a self-provlaimed name expert (I know) KoJo the Ghanaian name of where he's from would be said coa-joe

Israel Lewis is your Great Uncle? And is he still living in Africatown?

He is my great 5x Uncle. And no I’m not just trolling.

Cudjoe lewis

Jalen Jackson Hey we are finna shot a documentary in Africatown. If u interested contact me.

WOOOOOOOW I don't get a contact though. I was being serious when I said that.

WTI investments..I think you a bit confused.. the cotilda was a slave ship..and we are talking about two different things. You are talking about a Spanish Conquistador whom was probably paid by his queen in Spain to explore what is now america.and the french..and the british..which has nothing to do with african slavery .ok? .when the relative said "the people of mobile had their own language " he may have been talking about the African cudjoe Lewis dialect and some of his African American descendants dialect ways of talking and describing things. Your subject has nothing to do with the survivors of a slave ship and descendants of that survivor.

DOMINIQUE BROWN Judaism

DOMINIQUE BROWN depends on wat tribe ur specific ancestors are from, Judaism is definitely one of them Ethiopia’s in Africa

DOMINIQUE BROWN I found the most complete answer to that exact question in the book ‘Dreams of Africa in Alabama’ The author has done a masterful job (it’s very well written and researched). The poor souls who were sold to the Clotilda captain were “prisoners of war”. (That is, If any sane person can consider innocent civilians: children, teens & women {not soldiers!} as POWs😞) As such, they were the property of the King of Dahomey. They came from several different tribes, they spoke different languages. Their religions were Islam, Vodun, or the Orisa. (I looked Orisa up and it’s a beautiful religion, reminds me of the belief system of Native Americans. It’s unique and matriarchal based. Look it up.) Below, I copied and pasted a section that comes directly from the book (Dreams of Africa in Alabama): “Their story started in West Africa, in the Bight of Benin, a region known, ominously, as the Slave Coast. From small towns in the countries that are today Benin and Nigeria, young adults, teenagers, and children were brought to the coast and locked up in a slave pen, a barracoon, in Ouidah. They had names like Kossola, Abache, Abile, Omolabi, Kupollee, Kêhounco, and Arzuma. They were farmers, fishermen, and traders; they followed Islam, Vodun, or the Orisa. Some had been married, others were too young to have gone through initiation. The largest group was made up of prisoners of war captured by the Dahomian army during a dawn attack on their town. The rest of their companions were victims of kidnappings or slave raids. They spoke various languages, had lived in different parts of the region, and had different cultures and experiences. But in the barracoon and on the Clotilda, they created a strong, tight-knit community.” -from ‘Dreams of Africa in Alabama’ by Slyvianne A. Diouf Hope this helps💖

Africans can’t get reparations in America. Makes no sense

You lie he is from Benin

He was a Yoruba from Dahomey (Dahomey has more people of the Fon ethnic group than Yorubas, but there is also a region there where Yoruba live, having migrated from nearby Nigeria a few centuries ago-and that is the region he and most of the other Africans that founded Africatown came from; many were Yoruba and some were Fon). There were generally few Yoruba brought to the United States (most of the Yoruba enslaved in the transatlantic slave trade ended up in Cuba and Brazil), but the ship that brought the Africans that founded Africatown (in Alabama) was an exception, and many of those Africans were Yoruba. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Lewis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africatown

@@skellagyook He was specifically from a region of Bénin called Bantè. That region has a mix of Nago/Yoruba people and Mina from the nothern Mono region. It is a mistake to see actual borders of today as the limitations of ethnic territories. Remember that the Berlin Conference took into account the splitting of ethnic groups into different territories to avoid rebellion and have people of different ethnic background into the same country. The Yoruba/Nago people did not "migrate" into Benin. They were always there. Area like Porto Novo, Sakéte, Pobè, Ketou, Bantè have always been Nago people country. The Egoun people actually invaded Porto Novo with migration from Allada and chased the Nago away only to accept the Migration from Yorubas from Oyo 300 years later.

Kodjo is NOT only from Ghana. It is a name found in divers Gbé/Qua languages therefore can be found from Cote d'Ivoire to Bénin. Ewe, Mina and Popo in Benin /Togo The twi language in Ghana N'zima people in Côte d'Ivoire

@@sismeo1 That is true: re: the name Kodjo-I think it may be originally of Akan origin, but, like some other names, has been adopted by various Gbe and (non-Akan) Kwa groups. But apparently, his real name was not Kodjo, but Kossola or Oluale Kossola, which, I believe, is a Yoruba name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cudjoe_Lewis#Early_life_and_enslavement

I know right?

Very interesting being that all his children died at young ages and he came across the ocean with no relatives.. LOL And he would be an ancestor not a descendant

They're pronouncing it right. It's a Ghanaian name

Why? Because he's not consumed by hate like you?

@@tvs9978 Sell outs usually take up for each other

@@thecardiarliveshow2806 you're a sad person

white man still bad lol nah for real its okay....we all have work to do on our selves and breaking toxic cycles of oppression, entitlement, and generational curses

He might be a Ghanaian,because his name is a Ghanaian name from origin

Man, I pity you

@@sismeo1 Bruh...

So disrespectful…