Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom
Author: James Brewer Stewart
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781613760482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Brewer Stewart
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781613760482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Chandler B. Saint
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2009-02-26
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0819568546
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself
Author: Marilyn Nelson
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9781932425574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of poems by Marilyn Nelson, accompanied by prose by African slave Venture Smith and watercolor painting by Deborah Dancy.
Author: Venture Smith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-05-07
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 3387335474
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Venture Smith
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Published: 2021-12-07
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1513284770
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798) is an autobiography by Venture Smith. Written while Smith was living in freedom on his own farm in Connecticut, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture is recognized by scholars as a pioneering work of African American nonfiction and one of the earliest known slave narratives in American history. Born the son of Saugnm Furro, a prince of Dukandarra, Smith was captured as a boy and sold into slavery on the Gold Coast of Africa. Brought to Barbados by way of the Middle Passage, Smith was eventually sold to Robinson Mumford, a landowner from Rhode Island. Upon arrival in the British colony, Smith was put to work in the Mumford household, gaining the trust of his enslaver while enduring the abuses of Mumford’s young son. At 22, he married Meg, a fellow enslaved woman, and was soon swept up in an escape attempt with an Irish indentured servant. Betrayed at Montauk Point by the Irishman, Smith was forced to capture him and return to Rhode Island, where he was sold to Thomas Stanton in Connecticut. Separated from his wife and daughter, subjected to worse abuses than before, Smith sought to gain his freedom by any means necessary. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Venture Smith’s A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author: Elizabeth J. Normen
Publisher:
Published: 2019-09
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780578550626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this true story, first published in 1798, Venture Smith tells readers about his capture as a boy in West Africa, survival of the Middle Passage, and dramatic quest to free himself from slavery to become a successful farmer, fisherman, and trader in the American Revolutionary era.
Author: Anne Farrow
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0307414795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery “The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way to profits. . . . Complicity is a story of the skeletons that remain in this nation’s closet.”—San Francisco Chronicle The North’s profit from—indeed, dependence on—slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. Complicity reveals the cruel truth about the lucrative Triangle Trade of molasses, rum, and slaves that linked the North to the West Indies and Africa. It also discloses the reality of Northern empires built on tainted profits—run, in some cases, by abolitionists—and exposes the thousand-acre plantations that existed in towns such as Salem, Connecticut. Here, too, are eye-opening accounts of the individuals who profited directly from slavery far from the Mason-Dixon line. Culled from long-ignored documents and reports—and bolstered by rarely seen photos, publications, maps, and period drawings—Complicity is a fascinating and sobering work that actually does what so many books pretend to do: shed light on America’s past.