History
Venture Smith (Birth name: Broteer Furro)
(c. 1729 – 1805)
From West Africa
A prosperous mariner-merchant-farmer dubbed 'The Black Paul Bunyan'
Websites
- Benson, Judy. “Historian at New London Maritime Society program says former slave produced landmark work,” The Day [Local News] December 15. 2014.
- The Life of Venture Smith – PBS
- Rixon, K. "Venture Smith (c. 1729-1805)," Blackpast.org.
- Singer, Alan J. “Venture Smith’s Autobiography and Runaway Ad: Enslavement in Early New York,” MLL [Middle Level Learning], January/February 2007, p.2-6.
- Smith, Venture. 1798. 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.