In the 1700s, while Black people were being enslaved, Paul Cuffe was sailing ships, building wealth, and making history.Born free in 1759 to an Ashanti father and Wampanoag mother, Paul Cuffe should’ve been a statistic.Instead, he became one of the richest Black men in early America—owning ships, funding schools, and fighting for Black freedom on both sides of the Atlantic.He and his brother-in-law built one of the largest merchant vessels of their time.He sailed to Sierra Leone with free Black
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