The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey BraceThe 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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Published two years after the United States Congress officially abolished the
trans-Atlantic slave trade and two years before the outbreak of the War of 1812,
The Blind African Slave lacked significant political appeal at the moment. For the
...
Published two years after the United States Congress officially abolished the
trans-Atlantic slave trade and two years before the outbreak of the War of 1812,
The Blind African Slave lacked significant political appeal at the moment. For the
...
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Captivity and Middle Passage The transatlantic slave trade was launched in the
fifteenth century by Christopher Columbus, who promised Isabel and Ferdinand
of Spain “slaves, as many as they shall order” (Rawley 3). On his second voyage
...
Captivity and Middle Passage The transatlantic slave trade was launched in the
fifteenth century by Christopher Columbus, who promised Isabel and Ferdinand
of Spain “slaves, as many as they shall order” (Rawley 3). On his second voyage
...
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The era of the slave trade predated the European colonization of Africa; thus, few
Europeans lived in Africa in the eighteenth century. “Confined to the coast,
Europeans did business in places which were under the authority of African
rulers” ...
The era of the slave trade predated the European colonization of Africa; thus, few
Europeans lived in Africa in the eighteenth century. “Confined to the coast,
Europeans did business in places which were under the authority of African
rulers” ...
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While “the Royal African Company and its successor, the Company of Merchants
Trading to Africa (founded in 1750), ... and Slave Coast[,]... responsibility for
maintaining Britain's interest in the African trade... lay primarily in the hands of
private ...
While “the Royal African Company and its successor, the Company of Merchants
Trading to Africa (founded in 1750), ... and Slave Coast[,]... responsibility for
maintaining Britain's interest in the African trade... lay primarily in the hands of
private ...
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... of her own capture by French slave traders and her enslavement in Martinique,
a French- controlled island with an enslaved population of approximately 65,900
people in the mid-eighteenth century (Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade 78).
... of her own capture by French slave traders and her enslavement in Martinique,
a French- controlled island with an enslaved population of approximately 65,900
people in the mid-eighteenth century (Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade 78).
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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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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography |
| Autor/in | Jeffrey Brace |
| Herausgeber | Kari J. Winter |
| Mitwirkende Personen | Benjamin F. Prentiss |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0299201430, 9780299201432 |
| Länge | 184 Seiten |
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