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Living the Revolution: America, 1789-1820
Topic: Predicaments of Early Republican LifeTopic: ReligionTopic: PoliticsTopic: ExpansionTopic: Equality
Topic: Predicaments of Early Republican Life
Overview of Living the Revolution: America, 1789-1820
Resource Menu: Predicaments of Early Republican Life
Text 1. Benjamin Franklin
Text 2. Venture Smith
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Text 3. Washington Irving
Text 4. Royall Tyler
Text 5. Benjamin Rush
Text 6. Noah Webster


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2.  Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa, 1798, excerpts

Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture
Link
https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/venture/venture.html

Online
Source


Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries)

Printing

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-   Length: 15 pages (Narrative) plus 7 supplemental
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Supplemental
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Online exhibition: "Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period," from the Library of Congress







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