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Captain Cuffee the Sea Captain who aided enslaved people
In Westport Massachusetts the life of Paul Cuffee 1759 1817 is recalled as a self made ship captain shipbuilder and abolitionist He promoted education and independence for Black people sailed to Sierra Leone with colonists and supported free schooling and the new nation Sierra Leone He met President Madison and aided colonization efforts before his death in 1817 His monument stands before the Westport Quaker meeting house now a century old
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Westport
Mass
Sierra Leone
Africa
Paul Culffee
Westport Society of Friends
Captain Culfee
Nias
Coffee
Eace
Port Friends
Cuffee
Acoaxet
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Capt. Caffee
American Colonization Society
Khalil Torah
Clarence Pickett
Friends Service Committee
Capt. Cuffee
H. P. Howard
New York
Capt. Cuffees