Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 24 p.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

1. Smith, Venture, 1729?-1805
2. Slavery > United States
3. Slavery > Connecticut
4. Enslaved persons > Connecticut > Biography
5. African Americans > Connecticut > Biography
6. Free African Americans > Connecticut > Biography
7. Black people > Africa > Biography
8. Africa > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

1. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Call number

1. Sc Rare 326.92-S (Smith, V. Narrative of the life... 1835)

Note

1. Title vignette.
2. "Copy right secured according to law."--verso of title page.

Provenance (note)

1. inscribed: in ink on title page "Enoch Jackman's Book." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Smith, Venture, 1729?-1805.

Title

1. 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.

Imprint

1. New-London : --Printed in 1798. Re-printed, A.D. 1835, and published by a descendant of Venture, [1835]

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-S (accession no. B885335) inscribed: in ink on title page "Enoch Jackman's Book." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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1. Request Access to Special Collections Material

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Jackman, Enoch, former owner, inscriber.
2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 326.92-S (Smith, V. Narrative of the life... 1835)