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Author Yates, Elizabeth, 1905-2001

Title Amos Fortune : free man / Elizabeth Yates ; illustrated by Nora S. Unwin.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : E. P. Dutton, 1950.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Biography  J BIO Fortune c.2  ---  Available
Description 181 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note Winner of the 1951 Newbery medal.
Summary 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.
Subject Fortune, Amos, 1709 or 1710-1801 -- Juvenile literature
Fortune, Amos, 1709 or 1710-1801.
African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Slaves -- Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Afro-Americans -- Biography.
Slaves.
Massachusetts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Added Author Unwin, Nora S. (Nora Spicer), 1907-1982 illustrator.
ISBN 0525255702

 
    
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