1. Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates

2. “Africa 1725”

3. African Village

5. Captives on the Way to the Coast

6. Shackles and Whips

7. African Coast

8. “The Middle Passage”

9. Horrific Conditions Onboard

10. Crowding

11. Slave Auction in America

12. “Boston 1725-1740”
Quakers

13. Home Schooling

14. The Weaving Trade

15. “Woburn 1740-1779”
The Tannery Trade

16. The Tannery Trade
Bark for Tannin and a Spud

17. “Journey to Keene 1779”
Keene
Jaffrey

18. Southern New Hampshire

19. Southern New Hampshire

20. “The Arrival at Jaffrey”
View of Mt. Monadnock

21. Jaffrey Meeting House and Carriage Barn
Reverend Laban Ainsworth, Minister

22. “Hard Work Fills the Iron Kettle 1781-1789”

23. “Amos on the Mountain”
Mt. Monadnock

24. Building a Home

25. Violet Planted Lilac, Tea Rose, Japonica, and
Lily of the Valley at the New Home

26. “Auctioned for
Freedom”
Jaffrey Meeting House
Where Vendue
Was Held
and Amos Helped Polly

27. Amos’
Signature

28. Death of Polly
Burdoo

29. “Evergreen Years 1794-1801”
Indenture Paper, As for Amos’ Apprentices

30. Violet Weaves Fine Linen

31. Linen Weaving and Spinning

32. Excerpt from the History of the Town of Jaffrey, New
Hampshire
Fortune Family.
Amos Fortune, b. free in Africa; a slave in America; purchased his liberty;
settled in Jaffrey, on lot 18, range 6; now (1873) in possession of Levi Pollard.
He was an early settler, came to town about 1778; was a tanner by trade. He
was a highly-respected citizen, member of the church, and made it a present of a
silver communion service. He m. Violate, whose liberty he previously
purchased. He had no children. The following inscription may be seen on their
headstones in the old parish burying-ground:

33. Silver Communion Set,
As Donated to the
Jaffrey Meetinghouse by Amos Fortune

34. Little Red Schoolhouse
The fund Amos Fortune donated to the school in Jaffrey, New Hampshire is
still in use today.

35. Sacred to the memory of Amos Fortune, who was born free in Africa, a slave in
America, he purchased liberty, professed Christianity, lived reputably, and died
hopefully, Nov. 17, 1801, AEt. 91
Sacred to the memory of Violate, by sale the slave of Amos Fortune, by marriage his
wife, by her fidelity, his friend and solace, she died his widow Sept. 13, 1802, AEt. 73
(These moving epitaphs were written by the Reverend Laban Ainsworth.)

36. Amos’ and Violet’s Gravestones

37. Amos Fortune Road
Jaffrey, New Hampshire