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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... enslavement in Connecticut, service in the Revolutionary War, and settlement in Vermont (Appendix B). That was just ... enslaved people, Brace had difficulty recalling dates with precision. Frederick Douglass describes this difficulty ...
... enslavement in Connecticut, service in the Revolutionary War, and settlement in Vermont (Appendix B). That was just ... enslaved people, Brace had difficulty recalling dates with precision. Frederick Douglass describes this difficulty ...
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... enslaved, published a short memoir in 1858 in which he warned his readers to take counsel from me, one who has fought in the revolutionary war, and thereby caused the chains of slavery to be bound tighter around the necks of my people ...
... enslaved, published a short memoir in 1858 in which he warned his readers to take counsel from me, one who has fought in the revolutionary war, and thereby caused the chains of slavery to be bound tighter around the necks of my people ...
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... enslaved son of a Revolutionary War veteran ( Jupiter Mars ) , published a memoir in 1864 . 2. In 1978 John Buechler , the head of Special Collections at the University of Vermont , published a brief article on Brace and the history of ...
... enslaved son of a Revolutionary War veteran ( Jupiter Mars ) , published a memoir in 1864 . 2. In 1978 John Buechler , the head of Special Collections at the University of Vermont , published a brief article on Brace and the history of ...
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... enslaved people to claim “high-born African descent” (Carretta, “De- fining” 390).3 However, I would argue that when ... Enslavement physically severed Brace from his people, his culture, his land, and his language, but his determi ...
... enslaved people to claim “high-born African descent” (Carretta, “De- fining” 390).3 However, I would argue that when ... Enslavement physically severed Brace from his people, his culture, his land, and his language, but his determi ...
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... 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 , and adven ...
... 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 , and adven ...
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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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