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>.
