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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... mulatto child” named David Welch was baptized in St. Michael Parish (Sanders, Baptisms 100). This David Welch could have been the offspring of the couple that Brace encountered; in any case, his baptism demonstrates that white Welches ...
... mulatto child” named David Welch was baptized in St. Michael Parish (Sanders, Baptisms 100). This David Welch could have been the offspring of the couple that Brace encountered; in any case, his baptism demonstrates that white Welches ...
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... mulatto woman, who resided at Pil- grim [the Governor's house], and enjoyed all the privileges of a wife, ex- cept the honour of publicly presiding at his table. His excellency's extraordinary attachment to this sly insidious female was ...
... mulatto woman, who resided at Pil- grim [the Governor's house], and enjoyed all the privileges of a wife, ex- cept the honour of publicly presiding at his table. His excellency's extraordinary attachment to this sly insidious female was ...
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... mulatto women , who are possessed of considerable property , both in houses and slaves ” ( 5 ) . He added that these taverns were also “ houses of debauchery , a num- ber of young women of colour being always procurable in them for the ...
... mulatto women , who are possessed of considerable property , both in houses and slaves ” ( 5 ) . He added that these taverns were also “ houses of debauchery , a num- ber of young women of colour being always procurable in them for the ...
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... mulattos into their privateers , ” and he noted that “ at Barbadoes where they have such a short run both to St. Lucia and Martinique . . . several of those negroes and mulattos have carried some of the wherries off and made their ...
... mulattos into their privateers , ” and he noted that “ at Barbadoes where they have such a short run both to St. Lucia and Martinique . . . several of those negroes and mulattos have carried some of the wherries off and made their ...
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... Mulattoes ” and a regiment of “ Negroes ” in their forces in Havana ( Syrett 147 ) . Thus Brace was one of thousands of African men involved in this battle . Following the chronology provided by Brace , it appears that Captain Mills set ...
... Mulattoes ” and a regiment of “ Negroes ” in their forces in Havana ( Syrett 147 ) . Thus Brace was one of thousands of African men involved in this battle . Following the chronology provided by Brace , it appears that Captain Mills set ...
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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 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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