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.

VENTURE SMITH

New London, 1798







PREFACE

The following account of the life of VENTURE, is a relation of simple
facts, in which nothing is in substance to what he relates himself.
Many other interesting and curious passages of his life might have
been inserted, but on account of the bulk to which they must
necessarily have swelled this narrative, they were omitted. If any
should suspect the truth of what is here related, they are referred to
people now living who are acquainted with most of the facts mentioned
in this narrative.

The reader is here presented with an account, not of a renowned