User:RayneVanDunem/List of African Americans who have traced their ancestry to named African-born slave ancestors


 * Questlove - found out that his 3xgreat-grandparents, Charles and Maggie Lewis, were taken captive in warfare and sold as slaves in the port of Ouidah, Dahomey (now Benin) to American ship captain William Foster. They were among 110 slaves smuggled illegally to Mobile, Alabama, in July 1860 on the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to carry slaves to the United States.
 * American descendants of Scipio Vaughan (born in Abeokuta), including:
 * Jewel Lafontant, first female deputy solicitor-general of the United States
 * John W. Rogers Jr., investor, philanthropist and founder of Ariel Investments
 * Paul Cuffee, son of Kofi Slocum, an Ashanti man brought to Massachusetts as a slave
 * Nellie Quander, founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha, descendant of Egye Amkwandoh (born among the Fante people in present-day Ghana), member of the Quander family of Virginia and Maryland
 * Walker Lewis