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Connecticut Landscapes Through the Eyes of Venture Smith
through June 24, 2007 Click HERE to hear Marilyn read her poems Visit the Calendar for related programs. Marilyn Nelson
Photo by Doug Anderson
Soul Mountain Retreat of East Haddam, Connecticut. The Museum is grateful for the support of Connecticut Humanities Council and Pfizer. A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa: But Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America. Related by Himself. Printed in New London by C. Holt at the Bee-Office. 1798. Courtesy of the New London County Historical Society, New London, CT An Introduction to Venture Smith Venture Smith was born in the 1720s in what today is Ghana. His name was Broteer Furro, and he was the first son of a king. He was about six years old and enjoying an idyllic childhood when his community was captured by an army of black slave traders. After seeing his father tortured to death, little Broteer was separated from his family and sold, for a length of cloth and some rum, to the ship's steward aboard a Rhode Island slaveship. Robertson Mumford named the child Venture.
Pine with rope handle
18 3/4 x 40 3/4 x 17 inches Courtesy of the East Haddam Historical Society, East Haddam, CT | |
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