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Matilda McCrear | |
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| Born | Àbáké c. 1857 |
| Died | January 13, 1940 (aged 82–83) |
| Other names | Matilda Creagh |
| Occupation | Farmer (1865–) |
Matilda McCrear (c. 1857 – January 13, 1940) was the last known living survivor in the United States of the transatlantic slave trade and the ship Clotilda. She was a Yoruba who was captured and brought to Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama at the age of two with her mother and older sister.[1][2]
The girls were sold away from their mother and never reunited. Together with other American slaves in territory not occupied by the Union in the South, Matilda was granted freedom by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. She and her family did not achieve freedom until after the de jure abolition of slavery in 1865. She continued to be a sharecropper as an adult and had a family of fourteen children with a white German-born American common-law husband. She died in Selma, Alabama.
McCrear's life became publicly known through research by Hannah Durkin of Newcastle University, published in 2020.
- ^ Coughlan, Sean (2020-03-25). "Last survivor of transatlantic slave trade discovered". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2020-03-25. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
- ^ Durkin, Hannah (2020-03-19). "Uncovering The Hidden Lives of Last Clotilda Survivor Matilda McCrear and Her Family". Slavery & Abolition. 41 (3): 431–457. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2020.1741833. ISSN 0144-039X. S2CID 216497607.
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