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Cuffee
Cuffee, Cuffey, or Coffey is a first name and surname recorded in African-American culture, believed to be derived from the Akan language name Kofi, meaning "born on a Friday". This was noted as one of the most common male names of West Africa, West African origin which was retained by some American slaves. Racist connotation The name was used in the United States as a derogatory term to refer to Black people. For example, Jefferson Davis, then a US Senator from Mississippi who later became the President of the Confederate States, said that the discussion of slavery in the Dred Scott v. Sandford, ''Dred Scott v. Sandford'' case was merely a question of "whether Cuffee should be kept in his normal condition or not."Speech to the United States Senate, May 7, 1860 Notable people Guyana * Coffij, leader of the 18th century Berbice Rebellion in Guyana. Jamaica * Cuffee (Jamaica), Cuffee, a Maroons, maroon who waged a slave rebellion against plantation owners in Jamaica in th ...
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Paul Cuffee
Paul Cuffe, also known as Paul Cuffee (January 17, 1759 – September 7, 1817) was an African American and Wampanoag businessman, Whaling in the United States, whaler and Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist. Born Free negro, free into a Multiracial people, multiracial family on Cuttyhunk Island, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, Cuffe became a successful merchant and sea captain. His mother, Ruth Moses, was a Wampanoag from Harwich, Massachusetts, Harwich, Cape Cod and his father an Ashanti people, Ashanti captured as a child in West Africa and sold Atlantic slave trade, into slavery in Newport, Rhode Island, Newport about 1720. In the mid-1740s, his father was Manumission, manumitted by his Quaker owner, John Slocum. His parents married in 1747 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Dartmouth. After Cuffe's father died when the youth was thirteen, he and his older brother, John, inherited the family farm (their mother had life rights). They resided there with their ...
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Cuffee (Jamaica)
Cuffee was an escaped slave in Jamaica who led other runaway slaves to form a community of free black people in Jamaica in the island's forested interior, and they raided white plantation owners at the end of the eighteenth century. The name Cuffee is a variation of the Akan name Kofi, which is the name given to a boy born on a Friday. Origins In 1798, Cuffee escaped from a Jamaican plantation run by James McGhie, and he found refuge in the forested interior of the Cockpit Country. Many of the escaped slaves who joined his community had secured their freedom by fighting in the Second Maroon War. Cuffee's community of runaway slaves It was previously believed that Cuffee only led a small band of just 43 runaway slaves. However, recent research has shown that Cuffee's community counted more than twice that number of runaway slaves. The community was so large that they occupied several makeshift villages in the Cockpit Country, with their headquarters at a place called High Windward. ...
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Cuffee, Cuffey, or Coffey is a first name and surname recorded in African-American culture, believed to be derived from the Akan language name Kofi, meaning "born on a Friday". This was noted as one of the most common male names of West African origin which was retained by some American slaves. Racist connotation The name was used in the United States as a derogatory term to refer to Black people. For example, Jefferson Davis, then a US Senator from Mississippi who later became the President of the Confederate States, said that the discussion of slavery in the ''Dred Scott v. Sandford'' case was merely a question of "whether Cuffee should be kept in his normal condition or not."Speech to the United States Senate, May 7, 1860 Notable people Guyana * Coffij, leader of the 18th century Berbice Rebellion in Guyana. Jamaica * Cuffee, a maroon who waged a slave rebellion against plantation owners in Jamaica in the early 1800s. United Kingdom * William Cuffay (1788–1870), ...
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Ed Cuffee
Edward Emerson Cuffee (June 7, 1902 – January 3, 1959) was an American jazz trombonist. Career Cuffee moved to New York in the 1920s, where he recorded with Clarence Williams (1927–29) and played with Bingie Madison. He played in McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1929–34) and in Fletcher Henderson's band (1935–38), then with Leon Abbey (1940 and subsequently), Count Basie (1941), Chris Columbus (1944), and Bunk Johnson (1947). Cuffee quit playing professionally after the late 1940s. Cuffee has sometimes been incorrectly referred to as Cuffee Davidson because of erroneous early sources. References *"Ed Cuffee". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. Further reading *John Chilton John James Chilton (16 July 1932 – 25 February 2016) was a British jazz trumpeter and writer. During the 1960s, he also worked with pop bands, including The Swinging Blue Jeans and The Escorts. He won a Grammy Award for Best Album Notes in ..., ''Who's Who of Jazz''. {{DE ...
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Paul Cuffee (missionary)
Paul Cuffee (1757 – March 7, 1812) was a Christian minister, missionary, and preacher. A Native American of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Shinnecock tribe, Cuffee became a Christian and was baptized as a young adult. He was ordained as a ministry of the Presbyterian Church in his late twenties and began to work as a missionary for New York Missionary Society among the native peoples of Long Island, New York, where he worked for the survival of the local tribes, and became known as powerful preacher and a strong advocate for the native peoples of Long Island, to whom he became known as "Priest Paul." He also was a tireless advocate of his people among the non-native majority. He also spoke against slavery and was mentioned in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Cuffee was particularly active with the native communities in the areas of Hampton Bays and Montauk, New York, Montauk, and with his own Shinnecock community, establishing prayer meeting grounds where members ...
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Akan Names
The Akan people of Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Togo frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born. These "day names" have further meanings concerning the soul and character of the person. Middle names have considerably more variety and can refer to their birth order, twin status, or an ancestor's middle name. This naming tradition is shared throughout West Africa and the African diaspora. During the 18th–19th centuries, enslaved people in the Caribbean from the region that is modern-day Ghana were referred to as Coromantees. Many of the leaders of enslaved people's rebellions had "day names" including Cuffy, Cuffee or Kofi, Cudjoe or Kojo, Quao or Quaw, and Quamina or Kwame/Kwamina. Most Ghanaians have at least one name from this system, even if they also have an English or Christian name. Notable figures with day names include Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah and former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi ...
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Cuffee Mayo
Cuffee Mayo, sometimes spelled Cuffie Mayo, (1803–1896) was a minister, laborer, and politician in North Carolina. He was a Republican. Mayo was born free in Virginia. He moved with his family to Warren County, North Carolina by 1808. He later moved to Granville County where he worked as a blacksmith and a painter. He was African American and Granville County was home to many people had been enslaved. Mayo served two terms in the legislature. Like many of Granville’s mixed-race people, the Mayos’ roots were deep in colonial Virginia, where the mixing of Native Americans, white colonizers, and African Americans emanated from English invaders dispossession of indigenous peoples, forced importation of Africans, and enslavement of both. He represented Granville County in the North Carolina House of Representatives The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House is a 120-member body led by a Speaker of the ...
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Kofi
Kofi is an Akan people, Akan masculine given name among the Akan people (such as the Bono people, Bono, Akyem, Akwamu, Ashanti people, Ashanti and Fante people, Fante) in Ghana that is given to a boy born on Friday. Traditionally in Ghana, a child would receive their Akan Akan names, day name during their Outdooring, eight days after birth. According to Akan people, Akan tradition, people born on particular days exhibit certain characteristics or attributes. Kofi has the appellation "Kyini", "Otuo" and "Ntiful" meaning "wanderer" and "traveller." Origin and meaning of Kofi In the Akan culture, day names are known to be derived from deities. Kofi originated from Kwaofida and the Lord of life's home deity of the day Friday. Males named Kofi are known to be adventurers and indecisive thus taking time to settle. They are highly motivated and competent. Male variants of Kofi Day names in Ghana vary in spelling among the various Akan subgroups. The name is spelt Kofi by the Akuap ...
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William Cuffay
William Cuffay (1788 – July 1870) was a Chartism, Chartist leader in early Victorian era, Victorian London. Parents William was mixed-race, the son of an English woman from Gillingham, Kent, Juliana Fox, and a man of African heritage, Chatham Cuffay, who was previously enslaved and originally from Saint Kitts (then a British colony). Chatham Cuffay and Juliana Fox were married in 1786, and they had five children, one of whom died in infancy. William, the oldest child, was baptised on 6 July 1788, and Juliana on 28 August 1791. Juliana later married a widower named George Chaney, who worked in the dockyard, and between them they had four children.Martin Hoyles, ''William Cuffay: The Life and Times of a Chartist Leader'' (Hansib, 2013), p. 53. Chatham Cuffay worked in the Chatham dockyard, and died in 1815. He was buried in Gillingham. His wife Juliana died in 1837, and was buried beside her husband. Early life and marriages Born in 1788 in Old Brompton, an area of the Medway ...
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Slave Rebellion
A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of slaves have occurred in nearly all societies that practice slavery or have practiced slavery in the past. A desire for freedom and the dream of successful rebellion is often the greatest object of song, art, and culture amongst the enslaved population. These events, however, are often violently opposed and suppressed by slaveholders. Ancient Sparta had a special type of serf called ''helots'' who were often treated harshly, leading them to rebel. According to Herodotus (IX, 28–29), helots were seven times as numerous as Spartans. Every autumn, according to Plutarch (''Life of Lycurgus'', 28, 3–7), the Spartan ephors would pro forma declare war on the helot population so that any Spartan citizen could kill a helot without fear of blood or guilt in order to keep them in line ('' crypteia''). In the Roman Empire, though the heterogeneous nature of the slave population worked ...
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Joseph Boskin
Joseph Boskin (August 10, 1929February 16, 2025) was professor of history and ethnic and urban studies at Boston University. His interests included American social history, popular culture, ethnicity, conflict and violence, and humor research. Education and work *B.A., State University of New York at Oswego, 1947-1951 *M.A., New York University, 1951-1952 *Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1954-1959 Previous to joining Boston University in 1969, Boskin taught at Minnesota, Iowa, and The University of Southern California. Other professional associations included Director, Institute on Law and Urban Studies, Los Angeles, 1970-1971 and Editorial board of the International Journal of Humor Research. Personal life Boskin was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died in Lincoln, Massachusetts on February 16, 2025, at the age of 95. April Fools Day history Calling it his " Andy Warhol moment," in 1983, Boskin unwittingly fooled Fred Bayles, a reporter for the Associated Press by providing ...
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Jazz Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument from the brass instrument family. Trombone's first premiere in jazz was with Dixieland jazz Dixieland jazz, also referred to as traditional jazz, hot jazz, or simply Dixieland, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century. The 1917 recordings by the Original Dixieland Jass Band ( ... as a supporting role within the Dixie Group. This role later grew into the spotlight as players such as J.J. Johnson and Jack Teagarden began to experiment more with the instrument, finding that it can fill in roles along with the saxophone and trumpet in bebop. The trombone has since grown to be featured in standard big band group setups with 3 to 5 trombones depending on the arrangement. A person who plays the trombone is called a trombone player or a trombonist. History of trombone in jazz Traditional jazz trombone Trombone first saw use in the jazz world with its entrance into traditional jazz wh ...
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