# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-cuffe
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:35:55.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-cuffe"
name: "Paul Cuffe"
slug: "paul-cuffe"
description: "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 became a successful merchant and sea captain. His mother, Ruth Moses, was a Wampanoag from Harwich, Cape Cod, and his father an Ashanti captured as a child in West Africa and sold into slavery in Newport, Rhode Island, about 1720. In the mid-1740s, his father was manumitted by his Quaker owner, John Slocum. His parents married in 1747 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts."
tagline: "American businessman (1759-1817)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Cuffee..jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1759-01-17"
deathDate: "1817-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.01
  momentum:             1.057199211045365
  historical:           6.434241333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cuffee"
    title: "Paul Cuffee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81"
    title: "بول كاف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cuffe"
    title: "Paul Cuffe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cuffe"
    title: "Paul Cuffe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cuffe"
    title: "Paul Cuffe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cuffe"
    title: "Paul Cuffe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cuffe"
    title: "Paul Cuffe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3544162"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump