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Yates, Elizabeth, 1905-

Amos Fortune, free man / Elizabeth Yates ; illustrated by Nora S. Unwin. - New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Puffin Books, 1989, c1950. - 181 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - Puffin Newbery library .

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Dutton, 1950.

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.

ISBN: 0140341587

LCCN: 89030234

Subjects--Personal Names:
Fortune, Amos, 1709 or 1710-1801 --Juvenile literature.
Fortune, Amos, 1709 or 10-1801.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Massachusetts--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Slaves--Massachusetts--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Biography.
Slaves.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Massachusetts--Biography--Juvenile literature.

LC Class. No.: E185.97.F73 / Y3 1989

Dewey Class. No.: 974.4/00496073024 B 92