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.

On Traveller, Paul Cuffe sailed from Westport again in 1815 to Sierra Leone carrying 38 free black people who volunteered to go to Africa to help the people of Africa become more productive.

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