Winner · Newbery Medal 1951
Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
book
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- children's novel
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