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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... was be- stowed on him by his first master, Captain Isaac Mills, after a battle with a Spanish vessel in which Brace fired the first shot and received five wounds. “In consequence ... the captain gave me the honorable nick-name xii preface.
... was be- stowed on him by his first master, Captain Isaac Mills, after a battle with a Spanish vessel in which Brace fired the first shot and received five wounds. “In consequence ... the captain gave me the honorable nick-name xii preface.
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... receiving any from Jamaica as that island has been so much alarmed for some time past , induced me to take every measure I could ... received five wounds . Mills bestowed the name “ Jef- frey ” upon him because he , like Jeffrey Amherst ...
... receiving any from Jamaica as that island has been so much alarmed for some time past , induced me to take every measure I could ... received five wounds . Mills bestowed the name “ Jef- frey ” upon him because he , like Jeffrey Amherst ...
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... received his Punish- ment accordingly ” ( No. 3 , p . 3 ) . Brace describes in a plainspoken manner the sadistic treatment he re- ceived at the hands of Yankee Puritans . About twenty - one years old , Brace was still suffering from the ...
... received his Punish- ment accordingly ” ( No. 3 , p . 3 ) . Brace describes in a plainspoken manner the sadistic treatment he re- ceived at the hands of Yankee Puritans . About twenty - one years old , Brace was still suffering from the ...
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... received at sea “ broke out newly , ” and he “ almost perished with cold and hunger ” ( chapter 7 ) . Brace describes Burwell as “ a professed puritan ” who “ would read the bible and pray both night and morning , for all mankind ...
... received at sea “ broke out newly , ” and he “ almost perished with cold and hunger ” ( chapter 7 ) . Brace describes Burwell as “ a professed puritan ” who “ would read the bible and pray both night and morning , for all mankind ...
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... received, Brace makes it clear that he was not a passive victim. He criticizes not only the sadism, but also the appearance, the voices, the management style, the irrationality, and the religious hypocrisy of his masters. In one case he ...
... received, Brace makes it clear that he was not a passive victim. He criticizes not only the sadism, but also the appearance, the voices, the management style, the irrationality, and the religious hypocrisy of his masters. In one case he ...
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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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