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The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography

Autor Jeffrey Brace Cu Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq. Editat de Kari J. Winter
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 ian 2005
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299201401
ISBN-10: 0299201406
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: 4 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography


Recenzii

"A unique narrative. . . . Winter should be congratulated for reconstructing Brace’s life, the circumstances of the publication of The Blind African Slave, and the strange career of Benjamin F. Prentiss."—Ira Berlin, author of Generations of Captivity: A History of African American Slaves
"Kari Winter’s research rescues Brace from historical anonymity and places The Blind African Slave into the canon of early African American autobiography."—William L. Andrews, general editor
“[The Blind African Slave] will certainly be important to specialists in the field of transatlantic Black studies."—Vincent Carretta, editor of The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano
"The memoir, [first] published in 1810, is unusual among slave narratives because of the sweeping time period and geography it covers, including a rare look at slavery in New England."—Stephen Watson, The Buffalo News

Notă biografică

Kari J. Winter is associate professor of American Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the author of Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865.

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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.