The Blind African Slave : Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
ISBN-10
0299201449
ISBN-13
9780299201449
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint
University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 10th, 2005
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
416 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.90 x 2.10 cms
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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.
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.
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