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Paul Cuffee

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Gender Male
Death207 years ago
Date of birth January 17,1759
Zodiac sign Capricorn
Born Cuttyhunk Island
Gosnold
Massachusetts
United States
Date of died September 7,1817
DiedWestport
Massachusetts
United States
NationalityAmerican
SpouseAlice Pequit
BooksCaptain Paul Cuffe's Logs and Letters, 1808-1817: A Black Quaker's voice from Within the Veil
Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffe: A Man of Colour. . .
Memoirs of Captain Paul Cuffee
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Paul Cuffe: A Pequot Indian: During Thirty Years Spent at Sea, and in Travelling in Foreign Lands
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Paul Cuffee Life story


Paul Cuffee or Paul Cuffe was an American Quaker businessman, sea captain, and abolitionist. His mother was Aquinnah Wampanoag and his father Ashanti, captured as a child and sold into slavery. In the mid-1740s he was freed by his Quaker master in Massachusetts.

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