The Life and Adventures of Venture: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Life and Adventures of Venture, credited to Venture Smith, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Life and Adventures of Venture, by Venture Smith. Read by Bill Boerst. Venture Smith (1729–1805) was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased his freedom and that of his family. His history was documented when he gave a narrative of his life to a schoolteacher, who wrote it down and published it under the title 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. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Life and Adventures of Venture
• Author credits: Venture Smith
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 56:47

Catalogue topics

• memoirs
• slavery
• slave
• freedom
• United States of America

Track guide

1. 0 - Preface — 2:36
2. 1 - Chapter 1 — 16:50
3. 2 - Chapter 2 — 23:22
4. 3 - Chapter 3 — 14:02

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