Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates
Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates
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Amos Fortune, Free Man

Author: Elizabeth Yates

Narrator: Roslyn Ruff

Unabridged: 3 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/06/2018


Synopsis

A Newbery Medal Winner

When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction. Although his freedom had been taken, Amos never lost his dinity and courage. For 45 years, Amos worked as a slave and dreamed of freedom. And, at age 60, he finally began to see those dreams come true.

"The moving story of a life dedicated to the fight for freedom."—Booklist

About The Author

Elizabeth Yates (1905–2001), prolific American author, won the 1951 Newbery Medal for her novel Amos Fortune, Free Man. She also received a Newbery Honor in 1944 for Mountain Born.Nora Unwin (1907–1982) illustrated more than one hundred books for children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on December 06, 2015

"Hate could do that to a man, Amos thought, consume him and leave him smoldering. But he was a free man, and free at a great cost, and he would not put himself in bondage again." Here is a story not to be missed, of a young teenage boy in Africa, son of a chief and tribal leader, who is kidnapped by......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on September 06, 2016

I did my best to rate this what I might have rated it as a child, or maybe if I'd read it back when it was written. As a book, I would probably rate it highly in a list of similar children's biographies for interest and readability. Amos Fortune had a very interesting life, and a new biography of him......more

Goodreads review by Josiah on November 16, 2023

This is an exceptional juvenile biography, told as a historical fiction narrative. Elizabeth Yates is a sympathetic and caring author, and brings these qualities to the sad yet inspiring story of Amos Fortune, an African prince sold into slavery at age fifteen who spent the next forty-five years wor......more

Goodreads review by Ann on November 28, 2012

I had grave misgivings before I began reading this book. It won the Newbery Award, yes, but it won in 1951, and it's a book about a black man written by a white woman. In 1950. That's enough to give me a bit of a pause entering into the reading experience. On the whole, the book was not as racially i......more

Goodreads review by Kellyn on August 24, 2017

Read with mother and younger siblings for school (and a couple years before that, also for school). I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. I found some of Amos's ideas a little silly - such as finding his sister, whom he assumed would be the same age as she had been when he last saw her no matter ho......more


Quotes

Praise for Amos Fortune, Free Man

"The moving story of a life dedicated to the fight for freedom."—Booklist


Awards

  • Newbery Medal Winner