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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... English sailors, Dickson Bruce argues that these stories served an important psychological function, but that they were rarely based on actual experience. He explains: “Kidnapping, especially by whites, was a relatively rare event in ...
... English sailors, Dickson Bruce argues that these stories served an important psychological function, but that they were rarely based on actual experience. He explains: “Kidnapping, especially by whites, was a relatively rare event in ...
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... English slave traders are not implausible. He and/or Prentiss may have simplified Brace's story by eliminating mention of African intermediaries in the slave trade, or they may have been accurately describing the particularities of ...
... English slave traders are not implausible. He and/or Prentiss may have simplified Brace's story by eliminating mention of African intermediaries in the slave trade, or they may have been accurately describing the particularities of ...
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... English adventurers. Richard Ligon, an upper class Englishman seeking his fortune Barbados/ An Account of What Numbers of New Negroes are Introduction 15. May 28 Snow Antigua Merchants John Davis 17 June 8 Sloop Sea Horse John Banks 78 ...
... English adventurers. Richard Ligon, an upper class Englishman seeking his fortune Barbados/ An Account of What Numbers of New Negroes are Introduction 15. May 28 Snow Antigua Merchants John Davis 17 June 8 Sloop Sea Horse John Banks 78 ...
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... English as “the brightest jewel in our crown of trade,” Barbados was settled by the English in 1627 and it “was the first island to attract English settlers in considerable numbers” (Sheridan 124). Because it is the West Indian island ...
... English as “the brightest jewel in our crown of trade,” Barbados was settled by the English in 1627 and it “was the first island to attract English settlers in considerable numbers” (Sheridan 124). Because it is the West Indian island ...
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... Brace mentions the names of three white men in Barbados: a hotelier/ slave breaker named Welch, an English ship captain turned small planter named Lecois, and a mariner named William Burke. Tracing these 18 introduction.
... Brace mentions the names of three white men in Barbados: a hotelier/ slave breaker named Welch, an English ship captain turned small planter named Lecois, and a mariner named William Burke. Tracing these 18 introduction.
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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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