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First Blacks of Portsmouth, Part 2
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Written by Valerie Cunningham
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Page 3 of 4
PRINCE WHIPPLE (Continued)
Prince Whipple was prominent among the slave petitioners. He was one of the few
slaves whose name is known by those familiar with Portsmouth history. This recognition
was not gained for his courage in petitioning for the end of slavery. Rather,
his fame was based upon an earlier event, an agreement Prince is said to have
made with his master, William Whipple: to fight in the revolution for the liberty
of white colonists in exchange for his own emancipation. According to a much-quoted
vignette (first appearing in Rambles About Portsmouth), Prince struck the bargain
with Gen. Whipple and won his freedom immediately after the war. Yet, the harsh
reality for Prince was that he gained his freedom seven years after the war for
independence.
Prince and another slave, Cuffee, were young children when they arrived in Portsmouth with some other
slaves from Guinea about 1760. As the two boys reached maturity in the Whipple
household, they became familiar with the customs and habits of Portsmouth's white
gentry and visiting dignitaries. Prince served as chief steward for the most important
social events in the town; Cuffee played violin for cotillions at the State House.
In his position as the general's body servant, Prince would have been privy to
conversations between the leading military and political thinkers of colonial
America. Undoubtedly Prince knew about white fears of slave revolts in this country
and in the West Indies; certainly, he learned from other blacks as he traveled
that abolitionist activities were increasing in the major cities of the North.
Prince probably was sophisticated enough to understand what was possible for blacks
in Portsmouth which, in turn, undoubtedly earned him respect-and a leadership
role -- among slaves.
The wives of both Prince and Cuffee also had been slaves in families of comparable
affluence, and, as a result, the women had acquired special skills which they
used to enrich their family life and the community. Dinah, born a slave in the
household of the Rev. Chase of New Castle, served the family until her emancipation
at age 21. She married Prince and they had several children, one of whom was Ester
Whipple Molluneaux. Ester, like her parents, was a member of North Church and
a lifelong resident of Portsmouth. 74 Cuffee's wife, Rebecca Daverson, and their
children shared a house with Prince and Dinah. From their home, the women taught
black children of the town as part of the work of the Ladies Charitable African
Society. These combined families used their skills and the respect they had earned
among whites to benefit Portsmouth's black people.
Continue FIRST BLACKS
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