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Amos Fortune, Free Man
''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. 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. At-mun is kidnapped, transported to America via the ''White Falcon'' (a slave ship), and sold in New England. Now called 'Amos', he is sold to a man named Caleb Copeland, and though the Copeland family do not treat him badly he rejects his slave status and determines to earn his freedom. He comes to an arrangement with Copeland, but when Caleb dies in debt the arrangement is disregarded, and so Amos Fortune is sold again to a man named Ichabod Richardson. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Yates (author)
Elizabeth Yates McGreal (December 6, 1905 – July 29, 2001) was an American writer. She may have been known best for the biographical novel '' Amos Fortune, Free Man'', winner of the 1951 Newbery Medal. She had been a Newbery runner-up in 1944 for ''Mountain Born''. She began her writing career as a journalist, contributing travel articles to ''The Christian Science Monitor'' and ''The New York Times''. Many of her books were illustrated by the British artist Nora S. Unwin. Yates wrote a three-volume autobiography: ''My Diary – My World'' (1981), ''My Widening World'' (1983), and ''One Writer's Way'' (1984). Early years and education Elizabeth Yates was born iBuffalo, New York the daughter of Harry and Mary Duffy Yates. She was the seventh of eight children. Her father owned a plantation. She had a love of animals and the land, which stemmed from her childhood experiences. She attended Franklin School, graduating in 1924. Yates then spent a year at Oaksmere, a private school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |