 Cuffe's landholdings and those of Michael Wainer are described in the Cole, Gifford, Slade listed and linked in the references.In the nineteenth century, most Englishmen and Anglo-Americans believed that people of African descent were inferior to Europeans.The Second Great Awakening, carried primarily by Quakers, Methodists, and Baptists from New England to the South, had motivated some owners to manumit (free) their slaves after the Revolutionary War.