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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... Negro slavery was essential to the carrying on of this commerce , which in turn was fundamental to the making of the modern world ” ( 4 ) . Before the trade was abolished , at least eleven million Africans were transported against their ...
... Negro slavery was essential to the carrying on of this commerce , which in turn was fundamental to the making of the modern world ” ( 4 ) . Before the trade was abolished , at least eleven million Africans were transported against their ...
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... negro's mind; and the odious thing, equality, should be taught by European discipline never to raise its head (chapter 5). Brace's efforts to analyze his traumatizing environment may have enabled him to attain the emotional dissociation ...
... negro's mind; and the odious thing, equality, should be taught by European discipline never to raise its head (chapter 5). Brace's efforts to analyze his traumatizing environment may have enabled him to attain the emotional dissociation ...
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... Negro Man , was printed in Boston 1760. Although Hammon represented himself as a loyal slave , his publication of a memoir ( which is widely regarded as the first African American slave narrative ) contradicted the racist stereotypes on ...
... Negro Man , was printed in Boston 1760. Although Hammon represented himself as a loyal slave , his publication of a memoir ( which is widely regarded as the first African American slave narrative ) contradicted the racist stereotypes on ...
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... Negro Fellow, about 18 or 19 years of age; also, a Negro Wo- man, about 24, with a girl about 5 years old, for which he would take produce. Compared to the thriving international ports Brace had visited, New Haven was a small ...
... Negro Fellow, about 18 or 19 years of age; also, a Negro Wo- man, about 24, with a girl about 5 years old, for which he would take produce. Compared to the thriving international ports Brace had visited, New Haven was a small ...
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... Negro wench and child” on June 15, 1763; the binding out of poor adults and children on July 4, 1763; and the sale of “a parcel of Irish Servants [“Just Imported from Dublin”] both Men and Women, to be sold cheap” (Barber 165–66). As ...
... Negro wench and child” on June 15, 1763; the binding out of poor adults and children on July 4, 1763; and the sale of “a parcel of Irish Servants [“Just Imported from Dublin”] both Men and Women, to be sold cheap” (Barber 165–66). As ...
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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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