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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... 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.
... 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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... five hundred enslaved Indians back to Spain . About two hundred died during the voyage , and their bodies were thrown into the sea . For the next four centuries Spanish , Portuguese , Dutch , French , and British monarchs , mariners ...
... five hundred enslaved Indians back to Spain . About two hundred died during the voyage , and their bodies were thrown into the sea . For the next four centuries Spanish , Portuguese , Dutch , French , and British monarchs , mariners ...
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... five feet . In addition to the slave holds , some slavers built half - decks along the sides of the ships , extending no farther than the sides of the scuttles , where slaves , lying in two rows , one above the other , were crowded to ...
... five feet . In addition to the slave holds , some slavers built half - decks along the sides of the ships , extending no farther than the sides of the scuttles , where slaves , lying in two rows , one above the other , were crowded to ...
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... five months , which would have been un- usually long . In good conditions the voyage could be made in less than 40 days ; in less optimal conditions it could take months . The pain of the pas- sage may have made it seem interminable ...
... five months , which would have been un- usually long . In good conditions the voyage could be made in less than 40 days ; in less optimal conditions it could take months . The pain of the pas- sage may have made it seem interminable ...
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... five percent black. Indentured servitude of poor Europeans had always been a central source of labor for the English colonies, and en- slavement of Africans had been practiced in Anglo-America since 1619 when a Dutch vessel delivered ...
... five percent black. Indentured servitude of poor Europeans had always been a central source of labor for the English colonies, and en- slavement of Africans had been practiced in Anglo-America since 1619 when a Dutch vessel delivered ...
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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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