Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BUSINESS.) Newspaper obituary of Captain Paul Cuffe in the Columbian Centinel. 4 pages, 20 x 14 1/2 inches, on one folding sheet; stitch holes in margin, moderate foxing and minor wear. Boston, 17 September 1817

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A substantial obituary of the important sea captain and merchant Paul Cuffe (here Cuffee) appears on the final page: "He was a descendant of Africa: But he combatted and overcame by the native strength of his mind, and a steady adherence to principles which would have done honor to any white man." It praises him for "the deep interest which he felt for the welfare of his brethren of the African race. . . . At considerable sacrifice of property, he three times visited the colony of Sierra Leone."