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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... West Indies—Cave Hill Campus, both for his own research and for his insightful comments on mine. Thanks to staff at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England; the Public Records Office in London; the National Archives ...
... West Indies—Cave Hill Campus, both for his own research and for his insightful comments on mine. Thanks to staff at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England; the Public Records Office in London; the National Archives ...
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... West-Africa discussion list, espe- cially Wendy Wilson Fall, Paul Lovejoy, and Jerome Handler, with whom I had several cyberspace conversations. The genealogical database assem- bled by the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day ...
... West-Africa discussion list, espe- cially Wendy Wilson Fall, Paul Lovejoy, and Jerome Handler, with whom I had several cyberspace conversations. The genealogical database assem- bled by the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day ...
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... West Indian culture, the Seven Years War, New England slavery, the Revolutionary War, and early Vermont culture from the perspective of an extraordinarily perceptive African victim and participant. Brace's tragic experiences followed ...
... West Indian culture, the Seven Years War, New England slavery, the Revolutionary War, and early Vermont culture from the perspective of an extraordinarily perceptive African victim and participant. Brace's tragic experiences followed ...
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... west longitude,” and that the Niger River runs through it. Contemporary maps, such as that in Jedidiah Morse's 1802 New Gaz- etteer, thus place Bow-woo in the middle of West Africa, north of Guinea, west of Nigritia, and south of the ...
... west longitude,” and that the Niger River runs through it. Contemporary maps, such as that in Jedidiah Morse's 1802 New Gaz- etteer, thus place Bow-woo in the middle of West Africa, north of Guinea, west of Nigritia, and south of the ...
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... West Africa (Udo 12). After accompany- ing the king on a trip to Morocco, Brace's father returned to his family bearing products that he had procured from white people there, includ- ing silk and pistols, two of the most common products ...
... West Africa (Udo 12). After accompany- ing the king on a trip to Morocco, Brace's father returned to his family bearing products that he had procured from white people there, includ- ing silk and pistols, two of the most common products ...
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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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