Amos Fortune, free man

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Elizabeth Yates: Amos Fortune, free man (1989, Puffin Books)

181 pages

English language

Published Nov. 17, 1989 by Puffin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-034158-4
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Summary, The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.

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... one could say that Amos Fortune: Free Man is sappy, or overly religious or whitewashed, and that wouldn't be wrong, but it could serve well to spark interest in history and the shaping of our culture, and that's not a bad thing.

Amos Fortune was a real person, and Yates' research into his life story, with the help of the NH state librarian, uncovered details which might otherwise have been lost.

Copyright 1950, Newbery 1951.

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Subjects

  • Fortune, Amos -- Juvenile literature.
  • Fortune, Amos.
  • Afro-Americans -- Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
  • Slaves -- Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
  • Afro-Americans -- Biography.
  • Slaves.
  • Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.