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Venture Smith and the business of slavery and freedom

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Venture Smith and the business of slavery and freedom/ edited by James Brewer Stewart ; foreword by James O. Horton.
other author:	Stewart, James Brewer.
Published:	Amherst :University of Massachusetts Press, : c2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 279 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Slavery - History - 18th century. - United States -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9781613760482 (electronic bk.)

Venture Smith and the business of slavery and freedom
Venture Smith and the business of slavery and freedom[electronic resource] /edited by James Brewer Stewart ; foreword by James O. Horton. - Amherst :University of Massachusetts Press,c2010. - 1 online resource (xvii, 279 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"How I came by my name" / Marilyn Nelson -- A narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa -- pt. 1. History -- The African background of Venture Smith / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Trust and violence in Atlantic history : the economic worlds of Venture Smith / Robert P. Forbes,David D. Richardson, and Chandler B. Saint -- Venture Smith and the law of slavery / John Wood Sweet -- "Owned by negro Venture" : land and liberty in the life of Venture Smith / Cameron Blevins -- pt. 2. Memory -- Venture Smith, one of a kind / Vincent Carretta -- Keeping his word : money, love, and privacy in the narrative of Venture Smith / Anna Mae Duane -- pt. 3. Legacy -- The genomics perspective on Venture Smith : genetics, ancestry, and the meaning of family / Linda Strausbaugh, Joshua Suhl, Craig O'Connor, and Heather Nelson -- Venture Smith and philosophical theories of human rights/ Anne L. Hiskes -- Venture Smith's gravestone : its maker and his message / Kevin Tulimieri -- "The freedom business" / Marilyn Nelson -- Venture Smith time line.

ISBN: 9781613760482 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

962427
Smith, Venture,
1729?-1805.Narrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa.Subjects--Topical Terms:

962430
Slavery
--History--United States--18th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--DefensesIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

941310
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E444.S625 / V46 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 306.3/62092

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