Paul Cuffe
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Paul Cuffe, also known as Paul Cuffee was a Black American and Wampanoag businessman, whaler and abolitionist. Born free into a free people of color family on Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, Cuffe be
Captain Paul Cuffee engraving, 1812, from a silhouette by Dr. John Pole of Bristol, England
Whaling in the United States
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Commercial whaling in the United States dates to the 17th century in New England. The industry peaked in 1846–1852, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, sent out its last whaler, the John R. Mantra, in 192
New England whaling c. 1860: Whale fishery – attacking a right whale, by Currier & Ives
Alaskan whaler standing with a harpoon, 1915
Taking a Whale by A. Weir Harper's Weekly, 1866
An old whaler hove down for repairs near New Bedford, 1882 by Frederick Schiller Cozzens