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Bookmark or Share- Venture Smith, from Slavery to Freedom - Connecticut HistoryIt describes him as “Venture Smith, African. Tho the son of a King he was kidnapped and sold as a slave but by his industry he acquired Money to Purchase his Freedom.” Since then, he has been widely remembered in the region for his industry, integrity, and successes.
- Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, 1798 ...Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, 1798. Venture Smith’s autobiography is one of the earliest slave narratives to circulate in the Atlantic World. Slave narratives grew into the most important genre of antislavery literature and bore testimony to the injustices of the slave system.
- Venture Smith: The First Slave Narrative | TimelessVenture Smith dictated his life story in 1798, making it the first slave narrative in the United States. The Library's original copy is extremely rare. Smith's story is also one of the very few narratives by enslaved people who could recount their early life in Africa.
- Venture Smith | The Haddam Historical SocietyVenture Smith | The Haddam Historical Society. Illustration from Ruby Zagoren's An African Yankee. Venture Smith was born Broteer Furro in 1729. He was the eldest son of a West African Prince and spent his early years in what would be present-day Guinea. At age six, an enemy tribe attacked Broteer Furro and his village in present-day Guinea.
- Venture Smith (ca. 1729-1805) - BlackpastPublic domain image. Venture Smith was a West African who was captured as a boy and sold into slavery in New England. He eventually purchased his own freedom, the freedom of several other slaves, and in his old age he wrote the earliest autobiography by an African American.
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