Cuffee was an escaped slave in Jamaica who led other runaway slaves to form a community of free black people in Jamaica in the island's forested interior, and they raided white plantation owners at the end of the eighteenth century.
In 1798, Cuffee escaped from a Jamaican plantation run by James McGhie, and he found refuge in the forested interior of the Cockpit Country.
[3] However, recent research has shown that Cuffee's community counted more than twice that number of runaway slaves.
The community was so large that they occupied several makeshift villages in the Cockpit Country, with their headquarters at a place called High Windward.
[8][9] It is believed that members of Cuffee's community eventually joined the village of Me-no-Sen-You-no-Come, which was a refuge for runaway slaves in the Cockpit Country in the nineteenth century.