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Paul Cuffe

1759 – 1817

Massachusetts, United States, and Sierra Leone

Westport, Massachusetts mariner and merchant, son of a formerly enslaved African father and a Wampanoag mother, who protested taxation without voting rights and in 1815 carried Black American settlers to Sierra Leone.

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Period print 'Captain Paul Cuffee 1812', a portrait of Cuffe with his ship
Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. License: Public domain (no known restrictions on publication).

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Sources

  1. National Park Service, New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, "Paul Cuffe" (Primary source)
  2. Massachusetts Maritime Academy, "CAPT Paul Cuffe History" (Primary source)

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