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1800s Week!

Unknown British Artist

Portrait of Paul Cuffe/Cuffee

England (c. 1880)

oil on canvas, 64.1 x 52.1 cm.

Stuart P. Feld collection, NY, NY

The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

Paul Cuffee (1759-1817) was a man of Aquinnah Wampanoag and West African Ashanti descent, Quaker businessman, ship owner, navigator, abolitionist and also founded the first racially integrated school in Westport, Massachusetts. He was the founder of the Friendly Society of Sierra Leone, and organized expeditions that facilitated emigration of free Blacks from the United States to Sierra Leone and the newly independent Haiti.

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hmm yes I will reblog old-timey sailor pics