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See the related Smithsonian article (also on my fan wall) on the belated publication of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”, her semifictionalized first-person account of the life of Cudjo Lewis (born Oluale Kossola in Dahomey, now known as Benin). He was the last surviving slave born in Africa when she conducted her interviews with him in 1928. As a 19-year-old, Kossola had been captured in West Africa and transported as a slave to Mobile, Alabama decades after the slave trade had been outlawed.

I was aware of Hurston’s work as a folklorist, but did not know that she was a trained anthropologist and student of Franz Boas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston