Venture Smith. Venture Smith (Birth name: Broteer) (c. 1729 – 1805) was captured when he was a 6 and a half-year-old boy in West Africa and was taken to Anomabo on the Gold Coast (today Ghana) to be sold as a slave. As an adult in Rhode Island (Connecticut), he purchased his freedom and that of his family.
Robertson Mumford purchased his slave for four gallons of rum and a piece of calico cloth.
Explanation:
Venture Smith was held captive at the age of six and a half in <em>West Africa</em> in 1739. He was then taken to <em>Ghana</em> and was bought by Robertson Mumford, who paid <em>four gallons of rum and some calico cloth</em> for him. His birth name was Broteer Furro (1729-1805). He spent his life in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Mumford's home, where he finally bought his <em>freedom</em>. His autobiography, "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" depicts the African American voice of the <em>slave</em>.
Explanation: Georgia was founded for three primary reasons: philanthropy, economics, and defense. Of the three, the only true success the colony had under the Trustees was Georgia's defense of South Carolina against Spanish invasion. ... Philanthropic work in the colony was guided by the details of the Charter of 1732.
Wilson tried to keep the United States neutral during World War I but ultimately called on Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917. After the war, he helped negotiate a peace treaty that included a plan for the League of Nations.
