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Venture for freedom : the true story of an African Yankee

Title: Venture for freedom : the true story of an African Yankee / by Ruby Zagoren ; with woodcuts by Ann Grifalconi.
Author: Zagoren, Ruby
Publication: Cleveland : World Pub. Co., [1969]

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Description

125 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Only seven years old when captured by enemy tribesmen, the son of a West African tribal king related in his old age the biography on which this account of his capture, slavery, and successful struggle for freedom is based.

Subject

Genre/Form

Literature.
Biographies.
Juvenile works.

Note

Adapted from A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa, by Venture Smith.

Call Number

Sc D 19-897

LCCN

69013062

OCLC

4686

Author

Zagoren, Ruby, author.

Title

Venture for freedom : the true story of an African Yankee / by Ruby Zagoren ; with woodcuts by Ann Grifalconi.

Publisher

Cleveland : World Pub. Co., [1969]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Schomburg Children's Collection.

Grifalconi, Ann, illustrator.

Smith, Venture, 1729?-1805. Narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa.

Research Call Number

Sc D 19-897

Sc B-Smith, V. (Zagoren, R. Venture for freedom)

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