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Paul Cuffe
Paul Cuffe and his brother Joseph were among seven Massachusetts freemen (blacks), who, in 1779, refused to pay taxes for three years based on the fact that they could not vote and thus were not represented. The Cuffe brothers were jailed in 1780 for tax evasion, but their petition to the state legislature made lawmakers extend suffrage to taxpaying free blacks in that state.
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