Captain Paul Cuffee 1812

by Paul Cuffee, John Pole, after, M. D., Mason

$4,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Philadelphia: Abraham L. Pennock, 1850. Engraving, 6.625” x 4.875”, margins trimmed to conform with the shape of the printed border, and caption below. CONDITION: Very good, a few small spots to image below Cuffee’s profile. The most iconic image of Afro-Native American sea captain Paul Cuffee, one of the wealthiest Black Americans of his time and the first African American to lead an on-the-ground colonization effort

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