Amos Fortune, free man
By: Elizabeth Yates ; illustrated by Nora S. Unwin..
Contributors: Unwin, Nora Spicer, ill.
Series: Puffin Newbery library
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Fortune, Amos -- Juvenile literature.; Fortune, Amos.; Afro-Americans -- Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Slaves -- Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Afro-Americans -- Biography.; Slaves.; Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Description: Summary, The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published, New York , Dutton, 1950.