Amos Fortune, free man
by Elizabeth Yates · 1950

Popularity 79
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.
Juvenile literatureSlavesAfrican AmericansBiographyNewbery MedalAfro-AmericansFortune, amos, 1709 or 1710-1801African americans, biography, juvenile literature