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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... March 2003 it was still absent from the world's largest library, the Library of Congress. The rare interested scholar would have expected Brace to be hard to trace. I certainly did. Nonetheless, at the urging of William L. Andrews, I ...
... March 2003 it was still absent from the world's largest library, the Library of Congress. The rare interested scholar would have expected Brace to be hard to trace. I certainly did. Nonetheless, at the urging of William L. Andrews, I ...
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... March 2003 it was still absent from the world's largest library, the Library of Con- gress. The rare interested scholar would have expected Brace to be hard to trace. I certainly did. Nonetheless, at the urging of William L. Andrews, I ...
... March 2003 it was still absent from the world's largest library, the Library of Con- gress. The rare interested scholar would have expected Brace to be hard to trace. I certainly did. Nonetheless, at the urging of William L. Andrews, I ...
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... March 7 Sloop Gambia Henry Knowles 123 March 9 Snow Two Brothers Edward Wanton 138 April 3 Snow Spattler (?) Daniel Cook 336 April 3 Ship Chesterfield Joseph Hesketh Total 396 2601 Note: Adapted from PRO CO 28/31 ficult for scholars to ...
... March 7 Sloop Gambia Henry Knowles 123 March 9 Snow Two Brothers Edward Wanton 138 April 3 Snow Spattler (?) Daniel Cook 336 April 3 Ship Chesterfield Joseph Hesketh Total 396 2601 Note: Adapted from PRO CO 28/31 ficult for scholars to ...
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... March 8 Sloop Dolphin Isaac Howland 128 April 10 Snow Two Brothers Zebulon Wanton Total 140 Barbados / An Account of What Numbers of New Negroes. 1177 Note : Adapted from PRO CO 28/31 in Barbados in the mid - seventeenth century ...
... March 8 Sloop Dolphin Isaac Howland 128 April 10 Snow Two Brothers Zebulon Wanton Total 140 Barbados / An Account of What Numbers of New Negroes. 1177 Note : Adapted from PRO CO 28/31 in Barbados in the mid - seventeenth century ...
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... March 3 Brigg Nancy William Spears James McDougall 500 91 April 9 Ship Prince Fury ( ? ) Thomas Chaffers 375 April 22 Sloop Betsey Jeffrey Powers 2 April 22 Maj . Ship Chanfield John Leacifo ( ? ) 3 & 32 * April 24 Ship Ovoonok Shitch ...
... March 3 Brigg Nancy William Spears James McDougall 500 91 April 9 Ship Prince Fury ( ? ) Thomas Chaffers 375 April 22 Sloop Betsey Jeffrey Powers 2 April 22 Maj . Ship Chanfield John Leacifo ( ? ) 3 & 32 * April 24 Ship Ovoonok Shitch ...
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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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