The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey BraceUniv of Wisconsin Press, 16.02.2005 - 184 Seiten The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (né Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into slavery. After several years in New England, Brace enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After five years of military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. As a free man, he chose in 1784 to move to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times. |
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... Benjamin F. Prentiss. Originally published: St. Alban's, Vt.: Printed by Harry Whitney, 1810. Includes ... Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1774 or 5–1817. E444.B86B58 2004 306.3'62'092—dc22 2004007741 to the memory of Boyrereau Brinch ...
... Benjamin F. Prentiss. Originally published: St. Alban's, Vt.: Printed by Harry Whitney, 1810. Includes ... Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1774 or 5–1817. E444.B86B58 2004 306.3'62'092—dc22 2004007741 to the memory of Boyrereau Brinch ...
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... Benjamin Prentiss, as well as by the voice, memory, politics, and desires of its narrator-subject, Jeffrey Brace. In the opening quarter of the book, Prentiss constructs a third-person voice that blends his voice as “author” with the ...
... Benjamin Prentiss, as well as by the voice, memory, politics, and desires of its narrator-subject, Jeffrey Brace. In the opening quarter of the book, Prentiss constructs a third-person voice that blends his voice as “author” with the ...
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... Benjamin Southwell, the Agent at Barbados, Commodore Douglas described British efforts to “discourage the French from sending their free negroes and mulattos into their privateers,” and he noted that “at Barbadoes where they have such a ...
... Benjamin Southwell, the Agent at Barbados, Commodore Douglas described British efforts to “discourage the French from sending their free negroes and mulattos into their privateers,” and he noted that “at Barbadoes where they have such a ...
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Inhalt
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A Note on the Text | 85 |
The Blind African Slave Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace | 87 |
Deeds of Manumission Drawn by William Welch | 185 |
Legal Documents Related to Jeffrey Braces Military Pension Application 18181821 | 193 |
Documents related to Jeffrey Braces Land Transactions and Estate | 217 |
A Brace Chronology | 223 |
Bibliography | 227 |
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