Amos Fortune, free man
By: by Elizabeth Yates ; illustrated by Nora S. Unwin
Contributors: Unwin, Nora S. (Nora Spicer), 1907-1982, illustrator
Publisher: Aladdin Books
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Copyright date: 1950
Subjects: Juvenile literature; African Americans; Biography
Description: 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: Newbery Medal winner, 1951.
Table of contents: title: Africa 1725 --; title: The MIddle Passage --; title: Boston 1725-1740 --; title: Woburn 1740-1779 --; title: Journey to Keene 1779 --; title: The arrival at Jaffrey --; title: Hard work fills the Iron Kettle 1781-1789 --; title: Amos on the mountain --; title: Auctioned for freedom --; title: Evergreen years 1794-1801.