Cuffee was an escaped slave in Jamaica who led other runaway slaves to form a community of free black people in Jamaica in the island's forested interior, and they raided white plantation …

Cuffee is said to have been the first person of color to enter the White House through the front door. Paul Cuffee was one of the wealthiest men of color in the early 19th century America.

Paul Cuffe (born January 17, 1759, Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts [U.S.]—died September 7, 1817, Westport, Massachusetts, U.S.) was an American shipowner, merchant, and Pan …

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 spent most of his life fighting for equality and worked with both white and black abolitionists in the U.S. and England to end slavery. Cuffe also established a free, integrated …

He was a Black philanthropist, merchant, sea captain, and abolitionist. The son of a former African slave father and Native American (Wampanoag and Ashanti) mother, Cuffe was born on the …

Feb 6, 2025 · Paul Cuffee made a lasting and humane impact on white and black communities, from his whaling and maritime endeavor to his activist-based philanthropy to his advocating …

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.

Paul Cuffe, or Cuffee, (1759–1817) was a sailor, businessman, and abolitionist from Massachusetts. His mother was a Wampanoag Indian and his father was a formerly enslaved …

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 …