Contributions

  • Stewart, James Brewer. - Contributor
  • James O. Horton - Foreword
  • James Brewer Stewart - Editor

Publication

2010 - University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101558497404
  • ISBN-139781558497405
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010003401
  • OCLC Control Number368048004
  • Better World Books9781558497405
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC306.3/62092
  • DDCB
  • LCCE444.S625 V46 2010
and 1 more
  • LCCE444.S625V46 2010

Description

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.

Subjects

Topics

SlavesSlaveryHistoryAfricansInfluenceBiographyRace relations

Times

Genres

  • Biography

Other Editions

  • Venture Smith and the business of slavery and freedomUniversity of Massachusetts Press2010-01-01

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