Venture Smith
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venture-smith-184-14595411
title:
Venture Smith
text:
Venture Smith was an African-American farmer and craftsman. Smith was kidnapped when he was six and a half years old in West Africa and was taken to Anomabo on the Gold Coast to be sold into slavery. As an adult, he purchased his freedom and that of his family. He documented his life in 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. This autobiography is one of the earliest known examples
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Colonial American enslaved African and author
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Smith
date created:
2005-12-13T20:34:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T10:13:23Z
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