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Venture Smith
Venture Smith (c. 1729 – 1805) was an African captured as a 10- or 11-year-old and marched to Anomabo on the Gold Coast (today Ghana) to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased his freedom and that of his family. His history was documented when he recorded a narrative of his life and published it under the title ''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''. This autobiogrphy is the earliest known entirely African American literary voice.
==Early life==
Venture Smith was born Broteer Furro in a place he recalls as Dukandarra in "Guinea"—a term that at the time referred to much of West Africa. Clues in the narrative make it clear that he was from the savannah region — the Documenting Venture Smith Project believe it was the area near Lake Chad. He was the son of a prince who had several wives.
As a 10-year-old, he was kidnapped by a raiding army of Africans, and marched about 1,000 miles to Anomabo on the Gold Coast (today Ghana) The boy was purchased by Robinson Mumford, steward of the Rhode Island slave ship the ''Charming Susanna'', for four gallons of rum and a piece of calico. Mumford decided to call him Venture because he considered purchasing him to be a business venture. In late spring 1739 the ship sailed from Anomabo to Barbados and then to Rhode Island.〔See SlaveVoyages.org for details on the voyage #36067.〕
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