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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... America and the catalogue of the Library of the British Museum ; not even the great Vermont bibliographer , Henry Stevens , Jr. , could locate a copy ... even though Stevens was the greatest discoverer of rare American books of his ...
... America and the catalogue of the Library of the British Museum ; not even the great Vermont bibliographer , Henry Stevens , Jr. , could locate a copy ... even though Stevens was the greatest discoverer of rare American books of his ...
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... Americans in “free” states like Vermont. Perhaps twenty-first century readers will recognize the historical significance of a memoir that offers us an opportunity to view the slave trade, West Indian culture, the Seven Years War, New ...
... Americans in “free” states like Vermont. Perhaps twenty-first century readers will recognize the historical significance of a memoir that offers us an opportunity to view the slave trade, West Indian culture, the Seven Years War, New ...
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... American representations of Africa as a wilderness inhabited by savages incapable of genuine affection , memory , discipline and rationality . One of Brace's most important rituals of memory in the book's first chapter is to invoke the ...
... American representations of Africa as a wilderness inhabited by savages incapable of genuine affection , memory , discipline and rationality . One of Brace's most important rituals of memory in the book's first chapter is to invoke the ...
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... America often told stories about being kidnapped by English sailors , Dickson Bruce argues that these stories served ... American prices in 1698–1710 , and 50 per cent at the end of the eighteenth century ” ( Behrendt 474 ) . Since greed ...
... America often told stories about being kidnapped by English sailors , Dickson Bruce argues that these stories served ... American prices in 1698–1710 , and 50 per cent at the end of the eighteenth century ” ( Behrendt 474 ) . Since greed ...
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... . It was customary to give two meals a day .... North American slavers commonly fed their slaves rice and corn . ... Wa- ter was the usual beverage ” ( 297–98 ) . Brace underscores that “ we were H F H J D D E B C almost Introduction 11.
... . It was customary to give two meals a day .... North American slavers commonly fed their slaves rice and corn . ... Wa- ter was the usual beverage ” ( 297–98 ) . Brace underscores that “ we were H F H J D D E B C almost Introduction 11.
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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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