The uses of history. (author's problems in researching Black involvement in slave trade)

National Review | May 14, 1990| | Copyright

|I FEEL THE need of the help of friends": this quotation is from the April 24, 1812, journal entry of Captain Paul Cuffe, a black New England sea captain. He called for aid from a white group composed primarily of former slave traders when his ship, Traveler, was seized by the U.S. customs collector upon his return to the U.S. after an African voyage. While I have not been able to prove unequivocally that the captain himself was a slaver, his friends--blacks as well as whites--certainly were. And Captain Cuffe had earlier been intercepted by Captain Tildwell of the British ...

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