Envisioning Paul Cuffe

Can you imagine the life of Paul Cuffe?

Ray Shaw, a Westport resident and graphic artist, uses watercolor sketches to help visualize the past. His graphite and loose watercolor ‘storybook’ style challenges the viewer to use their imagination to interpret a given subject.

Paul Cuffe was strongly opposed to slavery. In 1810, he sailed past Westport Point in Traveller on his way to Africa. He wanted to see how he might help the African people find alternatives to being sold as slaves.

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