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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... young 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 ...
... young 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 ...
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... young Boyrereau Brinch arrived in port , he and his fellow slaves were removed from the slave ship and imprisoned in what he calls “ a large prison , or rather house of subjection ” ( 47 ) . William Pierson observes : “ So terrible was ...
... young Boyrereau Brinch arrived in port , he and his fellow slaves were removed from the slave ship and imprisoned in what he calls “ a large prison , or rather house of subjection ” ( 47 ) . William Pierson observes : “ So terrible was ...
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... young girl's at- tempts to protect her six-year-old brother by whipping the girl to death in front of her brother's eyes. After she died, the driver turned on Brace and “with a large tarred rope gave me about fifty stripes, which cut ...
... young girl's at- tempts to protect her six-year-old brother by whipping the girl to death in front of her brother's eyes. After she died, the driver turned on Brace and “with a large tarred rope gave me about fifty stripes, which cut ...
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... young women of colour being always procurable in them for the purposes of prostitution ” ( 5 ) . Brace describes Welch's black “ wife ” as a “ brutish , ” “ ostentatious , ” “ large fat greasy Guinea woman ; flat nose , thick lips ...
... young women of colour being always procurable in them for the purposes of prostitution ” ( 5 ) . Brace describes Welch's black “ wife ” as a “ brutish , ” “ ostentatious , ” “ large fat greasy Guinea woman ; flat nose , thick lips ...
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... Centering Woman xix ) . One morning when the tortured young Brace was sitting on Welch's stoop weeping , an African woman walked by and began talking to him in his native language . Astonished and afraid that it “ Introduction 25.
... Centering Woman xix ) . One morning when the tortured young Brace was sitting on Welch's stoop weeping , an African woman walked by and began talking to him in his native language . Astonished and afraid that it “ Introduction 25.
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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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