Download or read book A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture: a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself. With Poems By A Slave written by Venture Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE following account of the life of VENTURE, is a relation of simple facts, in which nothing is added in substance to what he related himself. If any should suspect the truth of what is here related, they are referred to people now living who are acquainted with most of the facts mentioned in the narrative. The reader is here presented with an account, not of a renowned politician or warrior, but of an untutored African slave, brought into this Christian country at eight years of age.GEORGE, who is the author of the following poetical effusions, Poems By A Slave, is a Slave, the property of Mr. James Horton, of Chatham County, North Carolina. He has been in the habit, some years past, of producing poetical pieces, sometimes on suggested subjects, to such persons as would write them while he dictated. Several compositions of his have already appeared in the Raleigh Register.