Amos Fortune, free man / Elizabeth Yates ; illustrated by Nora S. Unwin.

By:

Yates, Elizabeth, 1905-

Contributor(s):

Unwin, Nora Spicer, 1907- [ill.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Dutton, c1950.Description: 181 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

0525255702

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

B 92 326/.092 974.4/00496/092 20

Awards:

Newbery Medal, 1951

Summary: A biography of Amos Fortune, born the son of an African king, but captured at 15 and sold as a slave in Massachusetts where he purchased his freedom when he was sixty and became a respected citizen.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Riverfield Country Day School	Bio/For (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1		T0004255

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A biography of Amos Fortune, born the son of an African king, but captured at 15 and sold as a slave in Massachusetts where he purchased his freedom when he was sixty and became a respected citizen.