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.
- Published by
- Cleveland : World Pub. Co., [1969]
- Author
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Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | FormatText | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc D 19-897 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | FormatText | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc B-Smith, V. (Zagoren, R. Venture for freedom) | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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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.
- Call number
- Sc D 19-897
- Note
- Adapted from A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa, by Venture Smith.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 69013062
- Research call number
- Sc D 19-897
- Sc B-Smith, V. (Zagoren, R. Venture for freedom)