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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... British during the revolution and eventually fled with his wife to Sierra Leone, published memoirs in 1798. James Forten, a free black Philadelphian who served as a powder-boy for the rebels during the Revolution, published a book ...
... British during the revolution and eventually fled with his wife to Sierra Leone, published memoirs in 1798. James Forten, a free black Philadelphian who served as a powder-boy for the rebels during the Revolution, published a book ...
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... British Museum ; not even the great Vermont bibliographer , Henry Stevens , Jr. , could locate a copy ... even though Stevens was the greatest discoverer of rare American books of his century , and his British Museum catalogue of ...
... British Museum ; not even the great Vermont bibliographer , Henry Stevens , Jr. , could locate a copy ... even though Stevens was the greatest discoverer of rare American books of his century , and his British Museum catalogue of ...
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... British monarchs , mariners , and adven- turers vied for African and Indian slaves . James A. Rawley incisively summarizes the impact of the slave trade on the emerging global econ- omy : “ The opening of the Atlantic soon led to the ...
... British monarchs , mariners , and adven- turers vied for African and Indian slaves . James A. Rawley incisively summarizes the impact of the slave trade on the emerging global econ- omy : “ The opening of the Atlantic soon led to the ...
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... British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson uncovered “ shocking facts about slave - crew mortality , ” and the British Parliament responded to the uproar by establishing “ minimal require- ments for sleeping and victualing sailors in the ...
... British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson uncovered “ shocking facts about slave - crew mortality , ” and the British Parliament responded to the uproar by establishing “ minimal require- ments for sleeping and victualing sailors in the ...
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... British West Indies” (Levy 30). This form of sexual exploitation happened in a context where black women's bodies were routinely subjected to every form of violence and abuse imaginable. As Hilary Beckles has shown, white men grew ...
... British West Indies” (Levy 30). This form of sexual exploitation happened in a context where black women's bodies were routinely subjected to every form of violence and abuse imaginable. As Hilary Beckles has shown, white men grew ...
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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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