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The blind African slave, or, Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, nicknamed Jeffery Brace / edited and with an introduction by Kari J. Winter.
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- Book
- Series:
- Wisconsin studies in autobiography
- Wisconsin studies in autobiography series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brinch, Boyrereau.
- African Americans--Social conditions--18th century.
- African Americans.
- Enslaved persons--New England--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--New England--Social conditions--18th century.
- Slavery--New England--History--18th century.
- Slavery.
- Slave trade--Africa--History--18th century.
- Slave trade.
- Enslaved persons' writings, American.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Africa--Description and travel.
- Africa.
- New England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Blind African slave
- Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, nicknamed Jeffery Brace
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Born in West Africa around 1742, Jeffrey Brace was captured by slave traders at sixteen and shipped to Barbados, where he was sold. After fighting as an enslaved sailor in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to Connecticut and sold again. Brace later enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. In 1784, he moved to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There he married, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he narrated his life story to an antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss. Brace died in 1827, a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter supplements our knowledge of Brace's life and times with original documents and new material.
- Contents:
- The blind African slave: or, memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
- Deeds of manumission drawn by William Welch
- Legal documents related to Jeffrey Brace's military pension application, 1818-1821
- Documents related to Jeffrey Brace's land transactions and estate
- A Brace chronology.
- Notes:
- Narrative originally transcribed, with commentary, by Benjamin F. Prentiss.
- Originally published: St. Alban's, Vt. : Printed by Harry Whitney, 1810.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0299201406
- 0299201449
- OCLC:
- 54966234
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