Amos Fortune, Free Man (Puffin Newbery Library)

by Elizabeth Yates

Blurb

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 when people come and attack his tribe, is captured and taken to America as a slave. He masters a trade, frees himself by his own efforts and dies a respected citizen.

First Published

1950

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