Dates read: Apr/May 2011
Read or listened to: Read
Pages: 181 pp.
Rating: ●●●●○
Fabulous read. I would be interested how much creative license the author took and how much is documented. Amos Fortune was born free in Africa. At 15, he was shipped to the colonies and sold as a slave. During his lifetime he bought his own freedom and that of many others. He taught that freedom means nothing until one knows how to live. His life teaches self-reliance as well as helping others help themselves while still showing forth immense compassion. A line from the book that sticks out: "If people knew what it was they did that caused suffering they would no longer do it." Oh, how nice it would be to see the end from the beginning. I felt that this was likely a progressive book in terms of racial issues being that it was written in 1950. Loved it.
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