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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... women this day. Notes 1. Other accounts of African American Revolutionary soldiers include the fol- lowing. Boston King, a South Carolina slave who fought for the British during the revolution and eventually fled with his wife to Sierra ...
... women this day. Notes 1. Other accounts of African American Revolutionary soldiers include the fol- lowing. Boston King, a South Carolina slave who fought for the British during the revolution and eventually fled with his wife to Sierra ...
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... women this day . Avoid being duped by the white man— he wants nothing to do with our race further than to subserve his own interest , in any thing under the sun . ( 31–32 ) James Mars , an enslaved son of a Revolutionary War veteran ...
... women this day . Avoid being duped by the white man— he wants nothing to do with our race further than to subserve his own interest , in any thing under the sun . ( 31–32 ) James Mars , an enslaved son of a Revolutionary War veteran ...
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... woman and the man), a detail that Brace and Prentiss probably include to emphasize the ideal of chastity in Bow- woo culture, and to highlight the outrage of the rapes committed by the slave traders on African women (chapter 1). Equiano ...
... woman and the man), a detail that Brace and Prentiss probably include to emphasize the ideal of chastity in Bow- woo culture, and to highlight the outrage of the rapes committed by the slave traders on African women (chapter 1). Equiano ...
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... woman named Belinda , who stated in a petition in 1782 to the Massachusetts Legislature that one day around the age of twelve she was “ in a sacred grove , with each hand in that of a tender parent , [ and ] was paying her devotion to ...
... woman named Belinda , who stated in a petition in 1782 to the Massachusetts Legislature that one day around the age of twelve she was “ in a sacred grove , with each hand in that of a tender parent , [ and ] was paying her devotion to ...
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... women as they chose to sleep with them in their hammocks, whom they liberated from chains and introduced into their several apartments” (chapter 4). He continues: “to add to the horror of the scene, the sailors who were not pro- vided ...
... women as they chose to sleep with them in their hammocks, whom they liberated from chains and introduced into their several apartments” (chapter 4). He continues: “to add to the horror of the scene, the sailors who were not pro- vided ...
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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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