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January 17
Paul Cuffe, merchant, shipbuilder, and black nationalist, was born in New Bedford, MA, on this date in 1759. Cuffe helped American blacks settle in Sierra Leone in a "return to Africa" attempt.

The United States succeeded Denmark as the sovereign authority in the Virgin Islands on this date in 1917.

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