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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture: A Native of Africa (1798)di Venture Smith
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Venture Smith sounds like a 1930s comic hero! In reality Venture was a native of West Africa, born around 1729, who was taken by slave traders as a young boy across the broad waters to a master on Long Island. According to Wikipedia, "Out of almost 12 million African captives who embarked on the Middle Passage to the Americas, only about a dozen left behind first-hand accounts of their experiences," making this one of the earliest slave narratives and early writings by an African-American. Considering how old it is, it reads easily enough though is short on detail. In outline it is similar to Roots with the boy snatched from a jungle village by slave traders, abuse and whippings by a cruel master and his capricious white wife, the selling off and breaking up of slave families, and finally able to buy his freedom and establish himself as an independent farmer. There are many tragedies that go by in a sentence or two. It's not really a book, more like a pamphlet presumably produced under the influence of the abolitionist movement. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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 was written in 1798. Venture came to the United States as a slave when he was eight years old. His narrative begins, "I was born at Dukandarra, in Guinea, about the year 1729. My father's name was Saungm Furro, Prince of the Tribe of Dukandarra. My father had three wives. Polygamy was not uncommon in that country, especially among the rich, as every man was allowed to keep as many wives as he could maintain. By his first wife he had three children. The eldest of them was myself, named by my father Broteer. The other two were named Cundazo and Soozaduka. My father had two children by his second wife, and one by his third. I descended from a very large, tall and stout race of beings, much larger than the generality of people in other parts of the globe, being commonly considerably above six feet in height, and in every way well proportioned." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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