Freedom Business: Including A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa - Hardcover
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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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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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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Muirhead, Deborah (illustrator). 1st Edition. Honesdale, PA: WordSong, 2008. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($18.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 72 pages. Illustrated throughout by Deborah Dancy. INSCRIBED BY Marilyn Nelson on the title page, warmly to the prior owner and dated November 2012. "The Freedom Business: Including a Narrative of the Life & Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa" presents Marilyn Nelson's poems inspired by Venture Smith's 1798 slave narrative, accompanied by reproductions of collages by artist Deborah Dancy. Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946), former Poet Laureate of Connecticut and National Book Award finalist, is acclaimed for her poetry for adults and young readers. This was her fifteenth book. Inscribed by Author(s). Artikel-Nr. Rear-Poetry-Inscribed-Nelson
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