Amos Fortune, free man

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Biography describes Fortune's capture in Africa, his forty years of slavery after which he bought his own freedom and then worked to free many others.

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Contributors
Childs, Ray Narrator
Unwin, Nora S.1907-1982 illustrator., ill
Yates, Elizabeth Author
ISBN
9780140341584
9780976193272

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Africa 1725
Middle passage
Boston 1725-1740
Woburn 1740-1779
Journey to Keene 1779
Arrival at Jaffrey
Hard work fills the iron kettle 1781-1789
Amos on the mountain
Auctioned for freedom
Evergreen years 1794-1801.

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