A biography of Amos Fortune, born the son of an African chief, but captured at 15 and sold as a slave in Massachusetts, where he purchased his freedom when he was sixty years old and became a respected citizen.
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
