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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... died, some of his friends believed that he was nearly 100, but the dates in his memoir suggest that he was closer to 85. With the help of Vermont his- torian Raymond Zirbliz, I have prepared an approximate chronology of Brace's life ...
... died, some of his friends believed that he was nearly 100, but the dates in his memoir suggest that he was closer to 85. With the help of Vermont his- torian Raymond Zirbliz, I have prepared an approximate chronology of Brace's life ...
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... 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 , and adven- turers vied for African and Indian slaves . James A ...
... 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 , and adven- turers vied for African and Indian slaves . James A ...
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... died during the night were thrown into the ocean ” ( 32 ) . James Rawley observes : “ The feeding of slaves early in the trade became routinized . It was customary to give two meals a day .... North American slavers commonly fed their ...
... died during the night were thrown into the ocean ” ( 32 ) . James Rawley observes : “ The feeding of slaves early in the trade became routinized . It was customary to give two meals a day .... North American slavers commonly fed their ...
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... died from “ disease , mourned themselves to death or starved ; many of the children actually died with hunger ” ( chapter 4 ) . He estimates that about three hundred slaves survived the voyage . The official logs of the port of ...
... died from “ disease , mourned themselves to death or starved ; many of the children actually died with hunger ” ( chapter 4 ) . He estimates that about three hundred slaves survived the voyage . The official logs of the port of ...
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... died, the driver turned on Brace and “with a large tarred rope gave me about fifty stripes, which cut wails in every part of my body” (chapter 5). Brace not only narrates what he experienced and observed, he also an- alytically ...
... died, the driver turned on Brace and “with a large tarred rope gave me about fifty stripes, which cut wails in every part of my body” (chapter 5). Brace not only narrates what he experienced and observed, he also an- alytically ...
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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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