Talk:Paul Cuffe
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[edit] Overkill
The page repeats "free Blacks" and "African Americans" excessively. The people were called free Negroes. There is no reason to change free Negroes into "free Blacks." Simply employ the true wordage.HeyYallYo 22:30, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Edits for Grammar and spelling
I started to standardize the spelling of 'Cuffee'. Lorenzo Johnston Greene cited his spelling as found in the 'Memoir of Paul Cuffee a Man of color to Which is Subjoined the Epistle of the Society of Sierra Leone'. I can't change the name in the title, though. Some of these contents in the article look pretty spurious. I'll do some research and check back. I believe he fronted the $4,000 to start the Society of Sierra Leone alone. Certainly, the man's life was incredible, but I doubt he built his boats himself and crewed them alone. I changed a lot of usage of 'Black' to the terms of the day - especially 'Free Negor' to help anyone trying to look further into the topic in the primary sources of the day. LTC David J. Cormier (talk) 20:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
