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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... Milford men, Edward Allen and Thomas Gibb, to purchase a new 54-ton sloop that was built in Connecticut in 1763 and registered in New Haven on Feb. 17, 1763. The co-owners named the sloop The Seaflower, and early in 1764 Captain Mills ...
... Milford men, Edward Allen and Thomas Gibb, to purchase a new 54-ton sloop that was built in Connecticut in 1763 and registered in New Haven on Feb. 17, 1763. The co-owners named the sloop The Seaflower, and early in 1764 Captain Mills ...
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... Milford . A small town near New Haven , Milford in 1762 counted 1661 white residents and 134 blacks ( “ List ” 1 ) . Slavery was becoming increasingly controversial throughout Connecticut , and some of the black residents of Milford had ...
... Milford . A small town near New Haven , Milford in 1762 counted 1661 white residents and 134 blacks ( “ List ” 1 ) . Slavery was becoming increasingly controversial throughout Connecticut , and some of the black residents of Milford had ...
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... Milford enjoyed peace with truth all his days” (History of Milford 29). At the time of Brace's arrival in a frosty October, Milford was a bustling little place with two churches, three taverns, two small church-run li- braries, and four ...
... Milford enjoyed peace with truth all his days” (History of Milford 29). At the time of Brace's arrival in a frosty October, Milford was a bustling little place with two churches, three taverns, two small church-run li- braries, and four ...
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... Milford in 1639. The Burwells lived in an area known as Burwell's Farms , located near Prudden's Point , west of the Oyster River . Encountering snow for the first time , Brace had noth- ing to wear but a thin linen jacket and a pair of ...
... Milford in 1639. The Burwells lived in an area known as Burwell's Farms , located near Prudden's Point , west of the Oyster River . Encountering snow for the first time , Brace had noth- ing to wear but a thin linen jacket and a pair of ...
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... Milford since the mid - seventeenth century . The family's progenitor , Captain Samuel Eells , had been Milford's town clerk and the custom master for New Haven County , as well as one of three partners who built a fulling mill on ...
... Milford since the mid - seventeenth century . The family's progenitor , Captain Samuel Eells , had been Milford's town clerk and the custom master for New Haven County , as well as one of three partners who built a fulling mill on ...
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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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