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| Freedom Business | 
 enlarge | Authors: Marilyn Nelson, Deborah Muirhead
Publisher: Front Street
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 416257
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 74
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 1932425578
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781932425574
ASIN: 1932425578
Publication Date: October 2008
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A unique poetry collection September 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Freedom Business is a unique poetry collection, in which each poem is created in response to the true-life memoir of Broteer Furro (1729-1805), later dubbed "Venture Smith", the first African known to document his capture and life as an American slave. As the decades passed he eventually earned his freedom, and that of his wife and children. Poet Marilyn Nelson places pages from Furro's eighteenth-century prose memoir side-by-side along with original poetic works, illustrated by the dark, earthy watercolor collages of artist Deborah Dancy. The whole is a work of art that reveals emotion, determination, and survival; the daily life of a practical man for whom everything had a price - even his life, and the lives of his family. Highly recommended.
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