In 1798, a narrative called The Life and Adventures of Venture appeared in print. It was supposed to have been written by a former slave
called Venture Smith. Among those, like me, who specialize in slave narratives, the Venture Smith narrative proved to be a fake?
First of all, the Venture Smith narrative was a modified version of the Great Prince narrative.  Great Prince never wrote anything, but the
Mumford family heard his story many times during the ten years that John Mumford was the overseer for William Brown.