The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey BraceKari J. Winter University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 - 244 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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... served as a powder - boy for the rebels during the Revolution , published a book , Letters from a Man of Colour , in 1813. A well - known abolitionist and prosperous sailmaker , Forten was the pro- genitor of a prominent family that ...
... served as a powder - boy for the rebels during the Revolution , published a book , Letters from a Man of Colour , in 1813. A well - known abolitionist and prosperous sailmaker , Forten was the pro- genitor of a prominent family that ...
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... served as a Cap- tain in his parish in the 1760s , was 56 years old in 1777 , and her son David had died at the age ... served for only 29 days , including the ten days allotted for travel , and David Stiles was discharged on September ...
... served as a Cap- tain in his parish in the 1760s , was 56 years old in 1777 , and her son David had died at the age ... served for only 29 days , including the ten days allotted for travel , and David Stiles was discharged on September ...
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... served in the war as Washington's servant and was not manumitted until his master's death ) , Brace did not serve alongside the Stiles boys ; rather , he served as a private in various companies of in- fantry for the duration of the war ...
... served in the war as Washington's servant and was not manumitted until his master's death ) , Brace did not serve alongside the Stiles boys ; rather , he served as a private in various companies of in- fantry for the duration of the war ...
Inhalt
A Note on the Text | 85 |
Deeds of Manumission Drawn by William Welch | 185 |
Bibliography | 227 |
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