Venture Smith And The Business Of Slavery And Freedom

Author : James Brewer Stewart
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africans
ISBN : 1558497404

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Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom by James Brewer Stewart Pdf

The family, determined to honor the bicentennial of their founding ancestor's death by discovering everything possible about his life, opened burial plots in the hope of recovering DNA for genealogical tracing. What began as a scientific inquiry into African origins rapidly evolved into an interdisciplinary collaboration between historians, literary analysts, geographers, genealogists, anthropologists, political philosophers, genomic biologists, and, perhaps most revealingly, a poet. Their common goal has been to reconstruct the life of an extraordinary African American and to assay its implications for the sprawling, troubled eighteenth-century world of racial exploitation over which he triumphed. From publisher description.

Author : Chandler B. Saint,George A. Krimsky
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780819568540

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Making Freedom by Chandler B. Saint,George A. Krimsky Pdf

The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself

Author : Marilyn Nelson
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1932425578

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The Freedom Business by Marilyn Nelson Pdf

A collection of poems by Marilyn Nelson, accompanied by prose by African slave Venture Smith and watercolor painting by Deborah Dancy.

Author : Chandler B. Saint,George A. Krimsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0692389806

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Venture Smith by Chandler B. Saint,George A. Krimsky Pdf

Author : Chandler B. Saint
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1918-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692052186

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Venture Smith by Chandler B. Saint Pdf

Author : Venture Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1013805309

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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, But Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself by Venture Smith Pdf

Author : Venture Smith
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781513284774

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A Narrative of the Life and Adventure of Venture by Venture Smith Pdf

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 : Venture Smith
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1500239364

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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture by Venture Smith Pdf

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture - A Native of Africa - Venture Smith. Venture Smith (1729–1805) was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased his freedom and that of his family. His history was documented when he gave a narrative of his life to a schoolteacher, who wrote it down and published it under the title A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself. Venture Smith was born Broteer Furro in a place he recalls as Dukandarra in "Guinea"—a term that at the time referred to much of West Africa. Clues in the narrative make it clear that he was from the savannah region and the fact that he was sold at the seaport of Anomabu, in modern Ghana, suggests that he was probably originally from somewhere in what is now Ghana, Togo, or Benin. He was the son of a prince who had several wives. As a young child, he was kidnapped by a tribe of Africans who were employed by slave dealers. The boy was purchased by Robertson Mumford for four gallons of rum and a piece of calico. Mumford decided to call him Venture because he considered purchasing him to be a business venture. Venture was taken aboard a ship that sailed to Barbados.

Author : Venture Smith
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503312364

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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture by Venture Smith Pdf

"[...]themselves against such a formidable train of invaders, and must therefore necessarily evacuate their lands to the fierce enemy, and fly to the protection of some chief; and that if he would permit them they should come under his rule and protection when they had to retreat from their own possessions. He was a kind and merciful prince, and therefore consented to these proposals. He had scarcely returned to his nation with the message, before the whole of his people were obliged to retreat from their country, and come to my fathers dominions.[...]".

Author : Venture Smith,George Horton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979748276

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The Life and Adventures of Venture Smith by Venture Smith,George Horton Pdf

Venture Smith grew up as a household slave on the Mumford plantation and married Meg (or Margaret), another one of Mumford's slaves, when he was 22 years of age. Shortly thereafter, on March 27,1754 Venture escaped with two other slaves and one indentured servant, then voluntarily returns approximately around the month of April, 1754. Smith and several of his fellow slaves attempted to escape, but their plans were abruptly aborted. Smith and his wife were then sold to Thomas Stanton. Smith vividly describes the conflicts he encountered with his new master's family. He goes on to describe how he eventually purchased freedom for his wife and two sons and one daughter by hiring himself out to others, doing odd jobs such as cutting wood, farming, and fishing. Meg and Venture Smith bore 4 children named Hannah, Solomon, Cuff, and Solomon. Three of the children were born enslaved, and the youngest son named Solomon (named after his older brother Solomon who died tragically at 16 while working on a whaling expedition) was born 1773 around the same time Meg's freedom was purchased

Author : Marilyn Nelson
Publisher : Lyme Historical Society, Incorporated, Florence Griswold Museum
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1880897237

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The Freedom Business by Marilyn Nelson Pdf

Born the prince of Dukandarra, Guinea, Broteer Furro was captured by slave traders at age six. As Broteer stepped off of the African continent and onto a Rhode-Island-bound cargo ship, the vessel's steward purchased the boy and gave him a new name: Venture. The young man crossed the Atlantic, landed in Narraganset, and worked through a lifetime of slavery to buy not only his own freedom, but the freedoms of his wife and children.

Author : Venture Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798888974513

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A Narrative of the Life and Adventure of Venture by Venture Smith Pdf

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 : William M. Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : African Americans
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011408879

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The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom by William M. Mitchell Pdf

Author : Johanna Nicol Shields
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107013377

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Freedom in a Slave Society by Johanna Nicol Shields Pdf

Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study views that tragic reality through the lens of eight authors - representatives of a South that seemed, to them, destined for greatness but was, we know, on the brink of destruction. Exceptionally able and ambitious, these men and women won repute among the educated middle classes in the Southwest, South and the nation, even amid sectional tensions. Although they sometimes described liberty in the abstract, more often these authors discussed its practical significance: what it meant for people to make life's important choices freely and to be responsible for the results. They publicly insisted that freedom caused progress, but hidden doubts clouded this optimistic vision. Ultimately, their association with the oppression of slavery dimmed their hopes for human improvement, and fear distorted their responses to the sectional crisis.

Author : Elizabeth J. Normen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578550628

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Venture Smith's Colonial Connecticut by Elizabeth J. Normen Pdf

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.