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....

Comics villain Amos Fortune, Free Man, 1951 children's novel This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Amos Fortune. If an internal...

Amos Fortune (c. 1710 – November 1801) was a prominent African-American citizen of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in the 18th century. Fortune was born in Africa...

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 the duty of non-resistance for the white man, under all possible outrage and peril, as for the black man ... [For whites in parallel circumstances,...

1950 biography by Elizabeth Yates entitled Amos Fortune, Free Man, winner of the 1951 Newbery Medal. Amos Fortune was an African-born slave who purchased...

impossible task for Tubman. Around 1844, she married John Tubman, a free black man. Although little is known about him or their time together, the union...

Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington...

chief trainer, the "cock of the walk." George befriends Marcellus, a free black man, and fellow cockfighter, who informs him about the possibility of buying...

Garner, a slave in the slave state of Kentucky who escaped and fled to the free state of Ohio in 1856. Garner was subject to capture under the Fugitive Slave...

Park Service. Dresser, Amos (26 September 1835). "Amos Dresser's Own Narrative". The Liberator. p. 4 – via newspapers.com. "Amos Dresser's Case". Evening...

most recently released film to be selected. Solomon Northup is a free African-American man in 1841, working as a violinist and living with his wife and two...

tradition with written records. Roots tells the story of Kunta Kinte—a young man taken from The Gambia when he was 17 and sold as a slave—and seven generations...

attacked by the free-born Royal and two escaped slaves, who release Cora. Cora travels to a farm in Indiana owned by a free black man named Valentine...

committed the same crime as the Dutchman and the Scotsman, John Punch, a black man, was sentenced to lifetime slavery." Winthrop Jordan also described this...

Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed when U.S. troops reached the area during the Civil War. As a young man, Booker T. Washington worked his way...

film ends with an unidentified man’s fantasy re-enactment of William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. This man imagines Nat Turner's revolt in...

Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849). Henson, a formerly enslaved black man, had lived and worked on a 3,700-acre (15 km2) plantation in North Bethesda...

last survivor of enslavement by Thomas Jefferson "DeKalb County resident Amos King shares lineage to last survivor of American slavery, tribute set Feb...

people of Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. These people were newly freed slaves who were living in a refugee camp when these songs were collected...

series is linear and consists of three parts (the slave, the fugitive, the free man) which offer an epic chronicle of Douglass's transformation from slave...

stores nationwide. In 2014, an article in Fortune magazine lauded "The cookie comeback of 'Famous' Wally Amos" as Amos brought back his handmade cookies under...

Archived from the original on 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2022-06-01. "Enslaved and Freed African Muslims: Spiritual Wayfarers in the South and Lowcountry". Lowcountry...

Assembly extended full rights of citizenship to free people of color or mulattoes (gens de couleur libres) and free blacks. In many households, the treatment...

be free—you're goin' way off yonder where we'll neber see ye any more. You've saved me a good many whipping, Platt; I'm glad you're goin' to be free—but...

Irving, who had developed a process to distill seawater and later made a fortune from it. Two years later, Irving recruited Equiano for a project on the...

United States for most of his life. A children's book about him, Amos Fortune, Free Man won the Newbery Medal in 1951. Ana Velázquez, mother of Martin de...

often unpleasant, she married a reasonably successful formerly enslaved man by the name of Alec Haley, and had one son with him (Simon Haley). Alec and...

chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition to become a free man. It contains two introductions by well-known white abolitionists: a preface...

children to a different slave owner. With the help of James C. A. Smith, a free black man, and a sympathetic white shoemaker named Samuel A. Smith (no relation)...