The freedom business : including A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa / poems by Marilyn Nelson ; art by Deborah Dancy.
As a young man Venture Smith crossed the Atlantic Ocean, landed in Narragansett, and worked through three decades of slavery to buy not only his own freedom but also the freedom of his wife and children. Remarkable in his own time for his Ambition and physical stature, Venture Smith would become known to history as the first man to document both his capture from Africa and life as an American slave.
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