| The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace Contributor(s): Brace, Jeffrey (Author), Prentiss, Benjamin F. (With), Winter, Kari J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0299201449 ISBN-13: 9780299201449 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: "The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (ne 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Slavery |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004007741 |
| Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.68" W x 8.42" (0.79 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Born in West Africa around 1742, Jeffrey Brace was captured by slave traders at 16. After service in the Continental Army he moved to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. Although literate, he was blind when he narrated his life story to an antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss. |
