Freedom Business Including a Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa

Name: Freedom Business Including a Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
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ISBN: 9781932425574

ISBN-10: 1932425578

ISBN-13: 9781932425574

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marilyn Nelson, Deborah Muirhead, Deborah Muirhead

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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.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Highlights Press, c/o Highlights for Children, Inc.
Publication date: 10/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 72
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Marilyn Nelson is the author of The Freedom Business, Fortune's Bones, and Carver: A Life in Poems, among other titles. She is a National Book Award finalist, a Newbery Honor Book winner, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book award winner. She lives in East Haddam, Connecticut.