claim: The thought of a coup d'état was only floated in Cyprus.
evidence: Venture Smith -LRB- Birth name  : Broteer -RRB- -LRB- c. 1729 -- 1805 -RRB- was captured when he was a 6 and a half-year-old boy in West Africa and was taken to Anomabo on the Gold Coast -LRB- today Ghana -RRB- to be sold as a slave .. Anomabo. Anomabu. Gold Coast. Gold Coast ( British colony ). Ghana. Ghana. As an adult in Rhode Island , he purchased his freedom and that of his family .. He documented his life in 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 .. This autobiography may be the earliest known example of an autobiographical narrative in an entirely African American literary voice .. Smith got his first name from Robinson Mumford , who was his first master .. Mumford decided to call him `` Venture '' because he considered purchasing him to be a business venture .. After regaining his freedom , Smith adopted his last name from Oliver Smith -LRB- his last slave owner -RRB- .. In his narrative , Smith describes his people in his native country as having been generally of great bodily stature , stout and tall .. And he reports that he personally was well over 6 ft tall , weighed 300 lb , and carried an 9 lb axe for felling trees .. This is confirmed by the archaeological project in 2007 and the runaway ad from 1754 .. Venture Smith died in 1805 .. He is buried at the First Church of Christ cemetery in East Haddam , Connecticut , now a site on the Connecticut Freedom Trail .. East Haddam. East Haddam. Connecticut Freedom Trail. Connecticut Freedom Trail