Elementary grade biography of amos fortune
Elementary grade biography of amos fortune
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Amos Fortune, Free Man facts for kids
Original cover illustration | |
| Author | Elizabeth Yates |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Nora Spicer Unwin |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel |
| Publisher | E.
P. Dutton, New York |
Publication date | 1950 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 181 |
| ISBN | 0-14-034158-7 |
| OCLC | 19265732 |
Dewey Decimal | 974.4/00496073024 B 92 19 |
| LC Class | E185.97.F73 Y3 1989 |
Amos Fortune, Free Man is a biographical novel by Elizabeth Yates that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1951.
It is about a young African prince who is captured and taken to America as a slave.
Elementary grade biography of amos fortune and wife
He masters a trade, purchases his freedom and dies free in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in 1801.
Amos Fortune, a young African prince of a tribe called the At-mun-shi, was born free in Africa in 1710. He lives a peaceful life until a raid on their village by slavers kills his father, the chief.
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