{#BlackHistory365} Paul Cuffee (January 17, 1759 – September 9, - TopicsExpress



          

{#BlackHistory365} Paul Cuffee (January 17, 1759 – September 9, 1817) was a Quaker businessman, sea captain, patriot, and abolitionist. He was of Aquinnah Wampanoag and West African Ashanti descent and helped colonize Sierra Leone. Cuffee built a lucrative shipping empire and established the first racially integrated school in Westport, Massachusetts. By the first years of the nineteenth century Paul Cuffee was one of the most wealthy - if not the most wealthy - African American and Native American in the United States.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:53:11 +0000

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