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Paul Cuffe, also known as Paul Cuffee (January 17, 1759 – September 7, 1817) was an African American and Wampanoag businessman, whaler and abolitionist. Born free into a multiracial family on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, Cuffe became a successful merchant and sea captain.
The British Abolitionists in particular saw Paul Cuffe, a prominent black entrepreneur and humanitarian, as a potential ally in their efforts to create a successful colony for the freed slaves from both America and England who had already been transported to the African territory of Sierra Leone.
Paul Cuffee, a sea captain and an entrepreneur who was perhaps the wealthiest black American of his time, led the first Back-to-Africa effort in the early 1800s.
Paul Cuffe was an American shipowner, merchant, and Pan-Africanist who was an influential figure in the 19th-century movement to resettle free black Americans to Africa. He was one of 10 children born to Kofi (or Cuffe) Slocum, a freed slave, and Ruth Moses, a Native American of the Wampanoag.
Paul Cuffe is best known for his work in assisting free blacks who wanted to emigrate to Sierra Leone. Cuffe was born free on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts (near New Bedford) sometime around 1759.
Born to a freed slave and a Wampanoag woman in 1759, Paul Cuffe would become a renowned businessman and advocate before his death in 1817. Cuffe was born on Cuttyhunk Island (the westernmost of the Elizabeth Island archipelago that extends southwest from Cape Cod) to Kofi and Ruth Moses Slocum.
This website is dedicated to documenting current and ongoing research about the lives of Cuff Slocum, Paul Cuffe, Michael Wainer, and their descendants and associates.
Captain Cuffe was a Master Mariner and whaler, successful businessman, educator and community advocate, philanthropist and visionary until his death in 1817. Whether the business was shipping, whaling, trade, or running a store, Paul Cuffe was very successful.
Whaling captain and merchant Paul Cuffe, sometimes spelled Cuffee, (1759–1817) was one of the most prominent and financially successful people of color in the early United States. He was born on Cuttyhunk Island.
Paul Cuffe was the first Black American to formally meet with a sitting president at the White House, but his contributions to American society reverberate far beyond this brief encounter.