Cuffay, William, 1788-1870

found: The story of William Cuffay, 2005:p. 1 (born 1788) p. 12 (died July 1870)

found: Oxford Companion to Black British History, accessed April 6, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Cuffay, William; social reformer, organization founder/official, political activist, tailor, labor leader; born c.1788 in Chatham, Kent, England; journeyman tailor in his teens; was involved in the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union strike (1834) and lost his job; contributed to the founding of Metropolitan Tailors' Charter Association (1839); became a member of the Masters and Servants Bill Demonstration Committee; was elected president of the London Chartists (1842); was convicted and sentenced to 21 years in Tasmania and pardoned three years later; chose to remain in Tasmania and stay involved in trade unions and radical politics; died July 1870 in Tasmania, Australia)