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The article "Clinical Physiology" presents a neutral view with all information relevant to the topic. All information seems to be up to date and hits on a lot of points of Clinical Physiology. More information could be added about the education needed to preform Clinical Physiology. All of the links work and provide a non-biased source. The talk page doesn't have many comments, but a few ask where the author gained knowledge of Clinical Physiology. Overall the article presents valid information with a non-biased view. All links work and provides a bunch of relevant information. Nick S. Lance (talk) 20:21, 9 October 2018 (UTC)Nick Lance

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The article Venture Smith provides a bunch of information relevant to the topic. The article is neutrally written and all ideas are developed. In the section "Early Life" there is a sentence that states "The young Broteer was left in the care of a wealthy farmer while his mother her home country." I would like to add a word between "mother" and "her" because the sentence does't make sense. Most claims have a citation, but in "Early Life" a lot of information is given about Venture Smith's father without a citation. A link to read more on Saungm Furro would be appropriate.

These sources provide a closer look at Venture Smith's father and other information not covered.

Sweet, John Wood. "Venture Smith, from Slavery to Freedom." ConnecticutHistoryorg. Accessed October 09, 2018. https://connecticuthistory.org/venture-smith-from-slavery-to-freedom/.

Smith, Venture. A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 1996. Nick S. Lance (talk) 20:36, 9 October 2018 (UTC)Nick Lance

Venture Smith
(Intro) Venture Smith (Birth name: Broteer) (c. 1729 – 1805) was captured when he was a 6 and a half-year-old boy in West Africa and was taken to Anomabo on the Gold Coast (today Ghana) to be sold as a slave.[1] As an adult in Rhode Island (Connecticut), he purchased his freedom and that of his family. He documented his life in A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself. This autobiography may be the earliest known example of an autobiographical narrative in an entirely African American literary voice. Out of almost 12 million African captives who embarked on the Middle Passage to the Americas, only about a dozen left behind first-hand accounts of their experiences.

Fort William - the 1890s (Intro) Despite paying the enemy what they had asked for, Saungm Furro's village was attacked by a force of 6,000 men. Broteer, his family, and the entire village fled. On the way, Saungm Furro discovered a scouting party of the enemy and he discharged arrows at them. They were all soon captured. Saungm Furro was interrogated because the invaders knew that he had money. He was tortured to death for refusing to reveal the location of his money. This event stuck with Broteer for the rest of his life, "the shocking scene is to this day fresh in my mind, and I have often been overcome while thinking on it." The invaders forced the captives to march about 1,000 miles to Malagasco and the coast while at the same time the raiding force captured more Africans. In a turn of events, the captors are attacked and defeated by a local raiding party. Instead of being set free, he remained in bondage and continued his journey toward the coast and eventually arrived at the British slave-trading castle and dungeon of Anamabo (a.k.a. Fort William) on the Gold Coast (today's Ghana). In the late spring of 1739, the ship sailed from Anomabo to Barbados with 260 captives and then to Rhode Island.[4] On board, Broteer was purchased by Robinson Mumford of Rhode Island for four gallons of rum and a piece of calico and renamed "Venture." During the Middle Passage to Barbados a smallpox outbreak took the lives of 60 of his fellow captives. While most of the surviving captives were sold in Barbados, he was brought to New England.

(Early Life) His father was Saungm Furro, the prince of Dukandarra. His mother was the first of three wives and Broteer was the first of her three children. She left Saungm Furro's village after he married another wife without her permission. Although, Polygamy was not uncommon in that country, especially among the rich, as every man was allowed to keep as many wives as he could maintain. (1)

(Early Life) The young Broteer was left in the care of a wealthy farmer while his mother "LEFT FOR" her home country.

(A Free Man) Smith moved to Long Island. In 1769, after cutting wood and living frugally for four years and "investing the money he made" (2), Smith purchased his sons, Solomon and Cuff. He earned money to purchase his sons by cutting and cording wood, of which he said he did upwards of 400 cords and threshing out 75 bushels of grain over the course of 6 months. To purchase his sons, he paid 200 dollars (each). He then purchased a black slave for 40 pounds and gave him 60 pounds but the man ran away still owing Smith 40 pounds.

(A Free Man) In 1798, Smith dictated his life experiences and with his family had it printed by The Bee, in New London, CT. " By this time Venture was showing the signs of his old age: his strong, tall body was bowed and he was going blind". (2) The narrative has been the subject of some contention, regarded in many instances as "whitewashed" and inauthentic. It was suspected that the white editor manipulated Smith's story, a common practice among editors of slave narratives. After four conferences and numerous scholarly papers, it is the conclusion of most scholars and the Documenting Venture Smith Project that the Narrative is entirely Venture Smith's own words. The work is titled A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America.