Silhouette of Captain Paul Cuffee

engraving

PRINTS - ENGRAVINGS
Pole, John
USA
1812
paper; ink
Overall: 13 1/2 x 11 7/8 x 0 in.

Silhouette engraving of "CAPTAIN PAUL CUFFEE, 1812" (as IDed around image, which is centered over an unidentified 2 masted whaling schooner); engraved by Mason & Maas for Abraham Pennock, from a drawing by John Pole,, M.D. of Bristol, England (marked on lower half); came with original wood frame (99.98.2); this was the frontispiece to volume 5 of the periodical , "The Non-Slaverholder" (Philadelphia, ca 1850) which carries the article "A Brief Memoir of Paul Cuffee", by W.J. Allinson; Cuffee (1759-1817) was a son of a slave, and gained his freedom; founded the first black school in Westport, Mass. and the Friendly Society for the Emigration of Free Negroes from America in 1811.

UNIDENTIFIED schooner
1999.98.1