ONE OF THE EARLIEST LISTINGS OF PEOPLE OF COLOR
191
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(BUSINESS—BOSTON.) STIMSON, CHARLES.
Stimson’s Boston
Directory.
518 pages,
WITH A SEPARATE SECTION FOR
“P
EOPLE OF
C
OLOR
”
AT THE END
.
Tall, thick 12mo, original cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; title in gilt on the
spine.
Boston, 1842
[600/800]
AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF A RARE DIRECTORY
listing the names and addresses of African
American businesses. A fascinating resource.
THE ONLY KNOWN PORTRAIT
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(BUSINESS.) CUFFEE, PAUL.
Engraved silhouette portrait of Captain
Paul Cuffee.
9
1
⁄
4
x 7
1
⁄
2
inches; large damp-stain through lower third, impinging on 1
1
⁄
2
inches of the actual engraving; could be washed.
[Philadelphia, 1850]
[800/1,200]
The only known portrait of Paul Cuffee, one of the most successful African American business
men of the 19th century. His business took him up and down the North-Eastern coast and
finally, in 1811 he traveled to Sierra Leone, where he’d hoped to establish a business that
would involve trade between Africa and New England. This silhouette image commemorates
that trip and his return in 1812; and while dated 1812, the Library Company of
Philadelphia’s Philip Lapsansky;’s research dates it to 1850. Sadly, Cuffee died in 1817
before he could return to Sierra Leone and establish a business.
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BUSINESS
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