Cuffe, Paul, 1759-1817
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الاسم الرئيس (باللاتينية)
Cuffe, Paul, 1759-1817
صِيَغ اسمية أخرى
Cuff, Paul, 1759-1817
Cuffee, Paul, 1759-1817
Cuffey, Paul, 1759-1817
تاريخ الميلاد
1759-01-17
تاريخ الوفاة
1817-09-09
بلدان ذات صلة
United States
مهنة
Businesspeople
Sailors
black nationalists
النوع الاجتماعي
male
MARC
MARC
مصادر المعلومات
- African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Cuffe, Paul; Atlantic trader and early African colonizationist, Black nationalist, entrepreneur); born 17 January 1759 in Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, United States; taking his father's African name, Cuffe, and respecting his dual (Native American and African American) identity, the self-educated Cuffe sought his fortune at sea; built a school to ensure that racial discrimination would not deny his children and others a formal education; through the 1790s and into the 1800s he invested in a gristmill and store but he amassed his considerable wealth through maritime ventures; after he visited Sierra Leone he became confident that African Americans could establish a prosperous colony in Africa; on 10 December 1815 he sailed for Africa's west coast on the Traveller with a commercial cargo and thirty-eight African Americans, twenty of them children, with an intent on making a new life in Sierra Leone -- this constituted the first, black-initiated "back to Africa" effort in U.S. history; died 07 September 1817 in Westport, Massachusetts, United States)
- NUCMC data from Old Dartmouth Hist. Soc. Whaling Museum Lib. for His Papers, 1811-1828(Paul Cuffe; 1759-1817; of Westport, Mass.; Afro-American merchant and sea captain)