Title The narrative of an African American : Venture Smith (1798) / read by Robert L. Hall, introduction and preface by Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro.

Publication Info.	[Hartford, Conn.] : Beecher House Center for the Study of Equal Rights ; [Hull, England] : Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, [2010]
	©2010

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Location	Call No.	Status
Burlington Public Library - Audio Materials	CD B SMITH	Check Shelf
Canton Public Library - Adult Department	CDBOOK BIO SMITH	Check Shelf
Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Media Room	BKCD 920 SMI	Check Shelf
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department	BCD 306.632 N	Check Shelf
Granby, Main Library - Reading Room	CD BOOK BIOG SMITH, VENTURE	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Media Room	CD BOOK B SMITH, VENTURE	Check Shelf
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction Audiobook	CD B SMITH	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Reference Local History Room	MIDRM BKCD B-SMITH SMI	In-Library Use Only
Plainville Public Library - Adult Department	CD-BOOK B SMITH SMI	Check Shelf
Portland Public Library - Adult Department	CD BOOK BIOG SMITH, VENTURE	Check Shelf

Description	1 audio disc (70 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time	007000
Note	Compact Disc.
	Title from disc label.
	"Venture Smith dictated his life story to schoolteacher Elisha Niles. It was Published as a A Narrative of the Life and Adeventures of Venture, A Native of Africa: But resident above sixty years in the United States of America, printed as a 32-page pamphlet by C. Holt at The Bee-Office, New London and first advertised for sale on December 26, 1798."-- CD Case.
	Also includes comments by Chandler B. Saint, David Richardson, and conclusion by Marilyn Nelson.
Summary	Born to a noble African family, Venture Smith was captured and sold into slavery. Purchased by a wealthy family in New England, Smith immediately began to work to better his lot. He survived turbulent pre-Revolutionary New England and earned freedom for himself and his growing family. He went on to prosper in a tragically unjust time, and his detailed memoirs, recorded by a schoolteacher (he never learned to write) provide a surprisingly in-depth look at an often glossed-over part of American history, slavery in the North.
Note	GMD: sound recording.
Subject	Enslaved persons -- Connecticut -- Biography.
	Smith, Venture, 1729?-1805.
	Free African Americans -- Connecticut -- Biography.
	Slavery -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	Enslaved persons -- New York (State) -- Fishers Island (Island) -- Biography.
Added Author	Hall, Robert La Bret, 1947-
	DeLauro, Rosa L.
	Saint, Chandler B.
	Richardson, David, 1946-
	Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
Added Title	Venture Smith (1798)
Other Title	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

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