Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom

Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom
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Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 1558497404
ISBN-13 : 9781558497405
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Book Synopsis Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom by : James Brewer Stewart

Download or read book Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom written by James Brewer Stewart and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family, determined to honor the bicentennial of their founding ancestor's death by discovering everything possible about his life, opened burial plots in the hope of recovering DNA for genealogical tracing. What began as a scientific inquiry into African origins rapidly evolved into an interdisciplinary collaboration between historians, literary analysts, geographers, genealogists, anthropologists, political philosophers, genomic biologists, and, perhaps most revealingly, a poet. Their common goal has been to reconstruct the life of an extraordinary African American and to assay its implications for the sprawling, troubled eighteenth-century world of racial exploitation over which he triumphed. From publisher description.


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