The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey BraceUniv of Wisconsin Press, 16 feb. 2005 - 184 sidor 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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... on him by his first master, Captain Isaac Mills, after a battle with a Spanish vessel in which Brace fired the first shot and received five wounds. “In consequence ... the captain gave me the honorable nick-name xii preface.
... on him by his first master, Captain Isaac Mills, after a battle with a Spanish vessel in which Brace fired the first shot and received five wounds. “In consequence ... the captain gave me the honorable nick-name xii preface.
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... master, that gave the relation of slavery its peculiar value to the master” (7). Enslavement physically severed Brace from his people, his culture, his land, and his language, but his determi- nation to remember and to continue locating ...
... master, that gave the relation of slavery its peculiar value to the master” (7). Enslavement physically severed Brace from his people, his culture, his land, and his language, but his determi- nation to remember and to continue locating ...
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... master's vessels to carry them to other islands, or to America, I have known our mates to commit these acts most shamefully, to the disgrace, not of Christians only, but of men. I have even known them gratify their brutal passion with ...
... master's vessels to carry them to other islands, or to America, I have known our mates to commit these acts most shamefully, to the disgrace, not of Christians only, but of men. I have even known them gratify their brutal passion with ...
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... master mariner and commander of the ship Berwick, was involved in at least four such manumission projects wherein he collaborated with four free col- ored slaveholders (Sarah Hartle, Florella Clark, Christman Small, and Sussanah ...
... master mariner and commander of the ship Berwick, was involved in at least four such manumission projects wherein he collaborated with four free col- ored slaveholders (Sarah Hartle, Florella Clark, Christman Small, and Sussanah ...
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... Master Caulker, carpenters or Builder, or whoever are the Naval Officers, in order to be brought up to their several trades as caulkers, ship carpenters, or oth- erwise” (Admiral Charles Stewart to Navy Board, 11 November 1729; Baugh ...
... Master Caulker, carpenters or Builder, or whoever are the Naval Officers, in order to be brought up to their several trades as caulkers, ship carpenters, or oth- erwise” (Admiral Charles Stewart to Navy Board, 11 November 1729; Baugh ...
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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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The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace Jeffrey Brace Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2005 |
The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace Kari J. Winter Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2004 |
The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace Jeffrey Brace Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2005 |
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