Talk:Paul Cuffe

message: The page repeats "free Blacks" and "African Americans" excessively.  The people were called free Negroes.  There is no reason to change free Negroes into "free Blacks."  Simply employ the true wordage.HeyYallYo 22:30, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Overkill

message: I started to standardize the spelling of 'Cuffee'.  Lorenzo Johnston Greene cited his spelling as found in the 'Memoir of Paul Cuffee a Man of color to Which is Subjoined the Epistle of the Society of Sierra Leone'.  I can't change the name in the title, though.  Some of these contents in the article look pretty spurious.  I'll do some research and check back.  I believe he fronted the $4,000 to start the Society of Sierra Leone alone.  Certainly, the man's life was incredible, but I doubt he built his boats himself and crewed them alone.  I changed a lot of usage of 'Black' to the terms of the day - especially 'Free Negro' to help anyone trying to look further into the topic in the primary sources of the day. LTC David J. Cormier (talk) 20:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the article is entitled "Paul Cuffee", it seems awkward to have the repeated spelling of "Cuffe" in it, even if that was how he signed his name.Parkwells (talk) 
18:05, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits for Grammar and spelling

message: I've cited heavily from Thomas, but the information is repeated in Wiggins and Harris.  The works are very consistent.  I haven't seen a source for the quote in the middle, but I'm loath to delete it just yet. LTC David J. Cormier (talk) 21:44, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: References and Fleshing Out

message: I have created Paul Cuffee (missionary) to cover the man who is celebrated on the Episcopalian calendar instead of Paul Cuffee.  We should consider setting up a disambiguation page or a hatnote. --Pseudo-Richard (talk) 22:49, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Cuffee (missionary) 

message: I don't have time to look up the links now or at any time in the near future, but Madison's secretary Edward Coles probably attended the meetings in DC. A slaveholder at that time, Coles opposed slavery and freed his own slaves shortly after leaving Madison's (or federal, which seems quite overblown for the time period) service.Jweaver28 (talk) 16:27, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edward Coles 

message: Quote from Paul Cuffee Wikipedia - "Cuffee married Alice Pequit on February 25,1783. Like Cuffee's mother, Pequit was also Wampanoag." According to
historical accounts of Captain Paul Cuffee's life that I read many decades ago, Paul's wedding to Alice was filled with a great deal of political drama
involving the Massachusetts legislative body of the 1780's. In 1705 Massachusetts passed a law making marriage and sexual relations between blacks and whites
illegal. This same law also prohibited marriage and sexual relations between blacks and Indians illegal. According to the story Cuffee had planned a very costly
wedding and gala reception only to discover that although his mother was Indian (from the same tribe as his mother) because his father was African, he was considered
to be a Negro or black and hence could not marry Pequit. Paul's brother spent considerable time attempting to get the legislature to amend the law to allow Indians 
and blacks to marry. According to the story Cuffee spent a sizable sum of money lobbying the members, however it actually took two separate attempts before the 
final amendment passed allowing Cuffee and Pequit to proceed with their marriage. 
I think the document that provided this account of Cuffee's battle with the Massachusetts legislature might have been included in a publication by the Massachusetts
Historical Society. I currently cannot verify this. However I offer the above "talk" as a rather important footnote to your Wiki on the life of Captain Paul Cuffee.
Jazzbeck (talk) 01:21, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Paul Cuffee's marriage? 

message: We should make clear the two ways of Paul's spelling of his last name. There should be a redirect page to "Paul Cuffe," to this one. Paul referred to himself more often as Cuffe. Historian (talk) 08:51, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Cuffee and Cuffe

message: This statement is incorrect: "helped colonize Sierra Leone." To bring a few US Blacks to settle in Sierra Leone by the time when the colony was already well established is not to "help colonize" it. If the intent was to say that he helped the colonization movement with the transportation of these few families, a different wording should be used, one that should not imply that Cuffee was some sort of founder of Sierra Leone. 71.63.91.85 (talk) 16:45, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Sierra Leone?

message: The following paragraph appeared, and seems like a fine addition to the article except it needs any kind of citation. Can we get some sources on this? LTC (Ret.) David J. Cormier (talk) 12:56, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The family business

message: It seems odd that Paul Cuffee is considered multiracial. Why is that? Thomas Rolfe, the son of John Rolfe and Pocahantas is from a much more famous family, yet he's not considered to be the part of a multiracial family. Apparently, their marriage is the first of a full blooded Native American to a full blooded White person, in America. Yet, their children are not considered to be from a "multiracial" family. There's an entire section on standardizing the Cuffee family name, but nothing said about the Rolfes and their multiracial family.Kkhemet (talk) 02:58, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Cuffee's Racial Designation 

message: At the beginning of the page there's a link saying that Cuffe's mother had "life rights", which links to a page that talks about film copyright. Was that page changed from its previous content? I don't understand how it would make sense in its current form. Gnubison (talk) 00:30, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Life rights" link dead?