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050 00 $aE444.S625$bV46 2010
082 00 $a306.3/62092$aB$222
245 00 $aVenture Smith and the business of slavery and freedom /$cedited by James Brewer Stewart ; foreword by James O. Horton.
260 $aAmherst :$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $axvii, 279 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rJames O. Horton -- $tEditor's Preface /$rJames Brewer Stewart -- $t"How I Came By My Name" /$rMarilyn Nelson -- $tA Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture... /$rVenture Smith -- $gPART I.$tHISTORY -- $g1.$tThe African Background of Venture Smith /$rPaul E. Lovejoy -- $g2.$tTrust and Violence in Atlantic History: The Economic Worlds of Venture Smith /$rChandler B. Saint -- $g3.$tVenture Smith and the Law of Slavery /$rJohn Wood Sweet -- $g4.$t"Owned by Negro Venture": Land and Liberty in the Life of Venture Smith /$rCameron Blevins -- $gPART II.$tMEMORY -- $g5.$tVenture Smith, One of a Kind /$rVincent Carretta -- $g6.$tKeeping His Word: Money, Love, and Privacy in the Narrative of Venture Smith /$rAnna Mae Duane -- $gPART III.$tLEGACY -- $g7.$tThe Genomics Perspective on Venture Smith: Genetics, Ancestry, and the Meaning of Family /$rHeather Nelson -- $g8.$tVenture Smith and Philosophical Theories of Human Rights /$rAnne L. Hiskes -- $g9.$tVenture Smith's Gravestone: Its Maker and His Message /$rKevin Tulimieri -- $t"The Freedom Business" /$rMarilyn Nelson.
520 1 $a""A stunning collection. Venture Smith is a very important historical figure; his memoir is the only first-person source that narrates the entire arc of an African American's life from childhood in Africa through enslavement and emancipation to old age in North America. This volume will serve as a model of how collaborative and cross-disciplinary research can unpack a single documentary source to reveal a rich and intersecting array of insights into the meaning of a distant historical life in its own context as well as its meaning for our own lives and times."---Joanne Melish, author of Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England" "This book originated in the summer of 2006, in the burial ground of the First Church of Christ, Congregational, of East Haddam, Connecticut, where a team of forensic scientists began excavating the graves of two emancipated slaves, Venture Smith (d. 1805) and his wife, Marget (d. 1809). Those requesting this remarkable disinterment were the Smiths' direct descendants, members of the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh generations, who were determined to honor the bicentennial of their founding ancestor's death by discovering everything possible about his life. Opening burial plots in the hope of recovering DNA for genealogical tracing proved a compelling first step." "But what began as a scientific inquiry into African origins rapidly evolved into an unparalleled interdisciplinary collaboration between historians, literary analysts, geographers, genealogists, anthropologists, political philosophers, genomic biologists, and, perhaps most revealingly, a poet. Their common goal has been to reconstruct the life of an extraordinary African American and to assay its implications for the sprawling, troubled eighteenth-century world of racial exploitation over which he triumphed. This volume displays the rich results of that collaboration." "A highly intelligent, deeply self-motivated and immensely energetic slave transported from Africa, Venture Smith transformed himself through unstinting labor into a respectable Connecticut citizen, a successful entrepreneur, and the liberator of other enslaved African Americans. As James O. Horton emphasizes in his foreword to this volume, "Venture Smith's saga is a gift to all who seek to understand the complex racial beginnings of America. It helps to connect the broad American story with the stories of many Americans whose lives illustrate the national struggle to live out the national ideals.""--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aSmith, Venture,$d1729?-1805.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85352238
600 10 $aSmith, Venture,$d1729?-1805$xInfluence.
600 10 $aSmith, Venture,$d1729?-1805.$tNarrative of the life and adventures of Venture, a native of Africa.
650 0 $aSlaves$zConnecticut$vBiography.
650 0 $aFree African Americans$zConnecticut$vBiography.
650 0 $aAfricans$zConnecticut$vBiography.
650 0 $aSlavery$zConnecticut$xHistory$y18th century.
651 0 $aConnecticut$xRace relations$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010113267
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y18th century.
700 1 $aStewart, James Brewer.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85335785
852 00 $bglx$hE444.S625$iV46 2010