"Coffee" as the name of a female slave

[Margaret Lee]

The West African day name for Friday is Cuffee/Cuffy (Twi language of the Asante).
 
Margaret Lee

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--- On Fri, 2/13/09, Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:

From: Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET>
Subject: Re: "Coffee" as the name of a female slave
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 2:02 AM

At 2/12/2009 03:37 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>If "Coffee" and its variants are rare in my experience, it's
merely a
>coincidence. I've never met a white person by this name, either.

I have -- but the family was Denver Jewish.  (Sorry, I can't tell you
more; I was but a child, and met them only passing through to someplace else.)

Joel

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