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Kossula’s story was one of the last untold stories of every barbaric detail of the transatlantic slave trade. The details of the illegal accounts of racist bigotry of Kossula’s story versus The transatlantic slaves trade prove records of the slack of law enforcement for white people (white privilege) and supremacist. Outside of Kossula’s middle passage trade, The transatlantic trade was beginning its array of urged abolishment, treachery, and transitivity in 1820. The United States deemed that all slave trading is an act of piracy and punishable by the death penalty, so The Navy was then dispatched into four vessels to patrol the coast of West Africa for African residents and enslavers. This initial campaign lasted only four years before the Americans recalled the cruisers and broke off cooperation with the British. But in 1837, Britain invited the United States and France to create an international patrol to stop slaving, in return ,The U.S. declined to participate. Later in the 1860s, after an array of piracy, The Atlantic slave trade was abolished over a 30-year period ending with Portugal’s “1836” ban on slave trading. However, the legal abolition did not end the still profitable trade. The distinct periods in Cudjo Lewis’ life reflect on this, in his early years in Bantè, West Africa and the destruction of his village. At the age of 19, Kossula was preparing for marriage in West African, when he was captured by warriors from a rival tribe and sold into slavery, a half-century after the U.S. had outlawed “international trafficking of African peoples”. But a wealthy Alabama ship operator and slaveholder named Timothy Meaher, chartered the Clotilda, and wanted to prove that he could still smuggle kidnapped Africans into the country and organized an expedition to do just that, betting, correctly, that they wouldn’t be caught or tried for breaking the law. The ship’s captain, William Foster, brought 110 West Africans to Mobile, Alabama, where he and Meaher sold some and personally enslaved the rest. After the ship was burned upon the arrival in Alabama to hide evidence of its illegal cargo, the Africans were taken to Plateau, just north of Mobile, and Kossola became Cudjo Lewis, where he lived in slavery for five years.
The retention in the barracoon; the Middle Passage and enslavement in America; can only grasp so much of his experiences as a relocated, freedman in Africatown, Alabama. Even after a half-century after slave trading had had been outlawed, It continued illegally well into the 19th century, as recently as of the year 2000, when 10 million Africans were enslaved and transported to Europe and the U.S.as part of the slave trade. Eventually, it became an integral part of an international trading system in which Europeans and North Americans exchanged merchandise for human cargo along Africa’s western and west central Atlantic coasts. As long as there remained a market for slaves in the Americas, the trade would continue until the 1860s. But legal abolition did not end the still profitable trade, until, illegally, well into the 19th century.