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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... young men , are made members of the king's life guards , which consists of seventy or eighty young noblemen . This cere- mony is performed in the following manner : twelve young virgins of noble birth are arrayed in blue silk robes and ...
... young men , are made members of the king's life guards , which consists of seventy or eighty young noblemen . This cere- mony is performed in the following manner : twelve young virgins of noble birth are arrayed in blue silk robes and ...
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... young , descend upon the low lands , where it is thick settled . They have been taken when young and kept as a curiosity , and at two years old weighed 160 pounds . Their backs are a dark blue or black , with white talons and breasts ...
... young , descend upon the low lands , where it is thick settled . They have been taken when young and kept as a curiosity , and at two years old weighed 160 pounds . Their backs are a dark blue or black , with white talons and breasts ...
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... young lads that were near allied to the throne ; that he would give them all an European educa- tion , instruct them in all the arts of civilization in his power , and return in two years . For the true performance of this he pledged ...
... young lads that were near allied to the throne ; that he would give them all an European educa- tion , instruct them in all the arts of civilization in his power , and return in two years . For the true performance of this he pledged ...
Inhalt
A Note on the Text | 85 |
Deeds of Manumission Drawn by William Welch | 185 |
Bibliography | 227 |
Urheberrecht | |
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