Freedom Business: Including A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa - Couverture rigide

Nelson, Marilyn

 
9781932425574: Freedom Business: Including A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1932425578 ISBN 13 : 9781932425574
Editeur : Front Street, 2008

Synopsis

The true narrative of a slave from Africa, crafted in verse by Marilyn Nelson. Born an African prince, Broteer Furro was captured by slave traders at age six. As he stepped onto a cargo ship, the vessel's steward purchased the boy and gave him a new name: Venture. He landed in Rhode Island and worked through a lifetime of slavery to buy not only his own freedom but the freedom of his wife and children. Remarkable in his own time for his ambition and physical stature, Venture Smith became history's first man to document both his capture from Africa and life as an American slave. In this breathtaking volume, Marilyn Nelson's poems sit opposite the text of Smith's own narrative. Nelson's controlled verse layers this edition with insight into Smith's stoic eighteenth-century prose. Deborah Dancy's stark watercolor collages highlight the tension between the economical language of the narrative and the turbulent emotion within the poems.

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À propos de l?auteur

Marilyn Nelson is a former poet laureate of Connecticut and three-time National Book Award finalist. She is the author of several award-winning books of poetry for children and young adults, including, Carver and Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem. She is also the director of Soul Mountain Retreat, a writers' residency, located in East Haddam, Connecticut. where she lives.

Deborah Dancy received a BFA degree, an MS degree in printmaking, and an MFA in painting. She has exhibited throughout the country, and her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is on the faculty of the University of Connecticut. Ms. Dancy resides in Storrs, Connecticut.

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Éditeur
Front Street
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1932425578
ISBN 13 
9781932425574
Reliure
Relié
Illustrateur
Muirhead Deborah
Nombre de pages
72
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Purmerul LTD
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