Activist Paul Cuffee

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Paul Cuffee

Living place: Massachusetts

Birthday: 17-1-1759

Global rank: #83363

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Who is Activist Paul Cuffee?
Remembered as a navigator, shipping entrepreneur, prominent Quaker, and abolitionist, he played a key role in the colonization of Sierra Leone by American slaves.
During the late 1815 expedition to Sierra Leone, he carried nearly forty African-American colonists, including nearly two dozen.
 
 

Young / Before famous

In the early 1780s, he began building a fleet of ships that included Sun Fish, Mary, and Ranger. He first traveled to Sierra Leone in 1811.

Family life info

Born on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, to a Native American mother named Ruth Moses and a West African father named Kofi Slocum, Paul Cuffee grew up nine siblings. His marriage to Alice Pequit (who belonged to his mother's Wampanoag Native American tribe) produced children named Naomi, Mary, Ruth, Alice, Paul, Rhoda, and William.

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He and politician Henry Clay were both involved in efforts to recolonize former African-American slaves; However, Cuffee took issue with Clay's racist views on the issue.

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When was Activist Paul Cuffee born?
Paul Cuffee was born in 17-1-1759, death year is , at the age of 265.
Where is Activist Paul Cuffee's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Paul Cuffee was born in Massachusetts, . is a Activist, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Paul Cuffee's global rank is 83363 and whose rank is 142 in list of famous Activist.
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Events in 1759 and 17-1

Birthday Paul Cuffee (17-1) in history

  • Day 17-1 year 1706: Celebrating the birthday of "the founder" Benjamin Franklin. He was born in Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  • Day 17-1 year 1806: James Madison Randolph, the grandson of Thomas Jefferson, became the first child born in the White House.
  • Day 17-1 year 1893: Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani was forced to abdicate by a group of planters and businessmen.
  • Day 17-1 year 1945: Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappeared in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
  • Day 17-1 year 1977: Gary Gilmore became the first person executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was reintroduced.
  • Day 17-1 year 1991: Operation Desert Storm was launched against Iraq.
  • Day 17-1 year 1998: President Clinton became the first sitting U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit.
  • Day 17-1 year 2001: Gov. Gray Davis declared a state of emergency concerning California's electricity crisis.
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