Download or read book 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 With Poems By A Slave written by Venture Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE following account of the life of VENTURE, is a relation of simple facts, in which nothing is added in substance to what he related himself. If any should suspect the truth of what is here related, they are referred to people now living who are acquainted with most of the facts mentioned in the narrative. The reader is here presented with an account, not of a renowned politician or warrior, but of an untutored African slave, brought into this Christian country at eight years of age.GEORGE, who is the author of the following poetical effusions, Poems By A Slave, is a Slave, the property of Mr. James Horton, of Chatham County, North Carolina. He has been in the habit, some years past, of producing poetical pieces, sometimes on suggested subjects, to such persons as would write them while he dictated. Several compositions of his have already appeared in the Raleigh Register.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture written by Venture Smith and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture A Native of Africa but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America written by Venture Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book 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 Hi written by Venture Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venture Smith (1729-1805) was an African captive brought to the American colonies as a child. 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 (1798). Venture Smith was born Broteer Furro in a place he recalls as Dukandarra in "Guinea." 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 modern 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 young 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.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture written by Venture Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture written by Venture Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture" was written in 1798. Venture Smith (1729-1805) was an African captive brought to the American colonies as a child. 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 modern 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 young 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's ship then set sail for the island of Barbados. Later in his life, Venture managed to earn enough money on the side to buy first his own freedom, then that of his wife and children. "A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture" is his inspiring story.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture A Native of Africa But Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America written by Venture Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture a Native of Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Africa and named Broteer, Venture lived with his family until a tribal war when he was about six. He was then sold and was brought to America by a man who named him Venture, and lived as a slave until he was in his forties. Managing to earn enough to purchase his freedom, he also purchased his wife, his children and several other adult males. He lived his life in New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Includes various experiences while in Africa, and as both a slave and a free man in the U.S. Includes additional stories compiled by H.M. Seldon as told by people who remembered Venture and his children and, finally, the inscription on his tombstone.
Download or read book 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 written by Smith Venture ? and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book A Narrative of the Life and Adventure of Venture written by Venture Smith and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Concise Volume 1 Beginnings to Reconstruction written by Derrick R. Spires and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 1530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, The Broadview Anthology of American Literature balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with a thoroughgoing reassessment of the canon that emphasizes American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas. This concise volume represents American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, offering a more streamlined alternative to the full two-volume set covering the same timespan. Highlights of Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction • Complete texts of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; and Benito Cereno • In-depth thematic sections on such topics as “Rebellions and Revolutions,” “Print Culture and Popular Literature,” and “Expansion, Native American Expulsion, and Manifest Destiny” • More extensive coverage of Indigenous oral and visual literature and African American oral literature than in competing anthologies • Full author sections in the anthology are devoted to authors such as Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Briton Hammon, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, José María Heredia, Black Hawk, and many others • Extensive online component offers well over a thousand pages of additional readings and other resources
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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume A Beginnings to 1820 written by Derrick R. Spires and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literature represent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early American literature. Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, the anthology balances representation of widely agreed-upon major works with an emphasis on American literature’s diversity, variety, breadth, and connections with the rest of the Americas. Highlights of Volume A: Beginnings to 1820 • Complete texts of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative and Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette • In-depth Contexts sections on such topics as “Slavery and Resistance,” “Rebellions and Revolutions,” and “Print Culture and Popular Literature” • Broader and more extensive coverage of Indigenous oral and visual literature than in competing anthologies • Full author sections in the anthology devoted not only to frequently anthologized figures but also to authors such as Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Briton Hammon
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