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You're listening to the BBC World Service and this is witness history and I'm

Sean Cochlan. The transatlantic slave trait might seem like a distant and barbaric era, but a historian has found

that its last survivor, Matilda Macria, was still alive in living memory. Matilda had lived in Selma, Alabama

until January 1940,

making her the last living link

with slaves brought from Africa to the United States.

Matilda was captured under slave raid on her town and then marched to the

West African coast with her mother Gracie and her two brothers and three sisters.

Our father was probably killed in that slave raid. Matilda was then held in a slave pen for about two weeks

before being sold to a slave trader called Captain William Foster.

That's Hannah Durkin, an expert on the history of slavery from Newcastle University, who found

that Matilda had arrived in Alabama in 1860 as a two-year-old child

on one of the last slave ships from Africa. Making this link even closer,

she tracked our Matilda's grandson, Johnny Crea, living in Selma, who knew nothing about his grandmother's place in history.

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