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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... remained impressed on Brace's memory because it contributed to his ability to survive the next two violent decades of his life, during which he served as an enslaved soldier in both the Seven Years War and the American Revolution ...
... remained impressed on Brace's memory because it contributed to his ability to survive the next two violent decades of his life, during which he served as an enslaved soldier in both the Seven Years War and the American Revolution ...
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... courage than prudence” (chapter 7). After towing the captured Spanish vessel to Savannah, Georgia, Mills's ship sailed once again for Havana. Brace mentions that their ship “remained about two months” before Introduction 29.
... courage than prudence” (chapter 7). After towing the captured Spanish vessel to Savannah, Georgia, Mills's ship sailed once again for Havana. Brace mentions that their ship “remained about two months” before Introduction 29.
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... remained about two months” before the fortress at Havana, and this fits precisely with the historical time-frame. The British assault began on June 8, and after a horrific siege in which hundreds of soldiers died from combat while ...
... remained about two months” before the fortress at Havana, and this fits precisely with the historical time-frame. The British assault began on June 8, and after a horrific siege in which hundreds of soldiers died from combat while ...
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... remained relatively constant, consisting of 64 slaves, 57 free “Negroes” living in households of their own, and eleven free nonwhites living in white households (Heads of Household, first U.S. Census, 1790). The sixth oldest town in ...
... remained relatively constant, consisting of 64 slaves, 57 free “Negroes” living in households of their own, and eleven free nonwhites living in white households (Heads of Household, first U.S. Census, 1790). The sixth oldest town in ...
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Inhalt
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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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