The book "The story of the life and adventures of Ventura, a native of Africa who lived for more than sixty years in the United States of America, told by himself" is a fascinating autobiography of Ventura, who tells about his terrible vicissitudes from slavery in Africa to a free life in a new country. Ventura is recruited and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean as a slave, but thanks to his courage and endurance, he saves himself from his inevitable fate and finds freedom and a new life in America. His story is an impressive testimony to the strength of the human spirit and the desire to belong to one's own life.