A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798) is an autobiography by Venture Smith. Written while Smith was living in freedom on his own farm in Conn

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The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself

The family, determined to honor the bicentennial of their founding ancestor's death by discovering everything possible about his life, opened burial plots in th

Even as a pup, Davy Crockett "always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger." In his own inimitable style, he describes his earliest days in Tennessee,