Contributions

  • Winter, Kari J. - Contributor
  • Prentiss, Benjamin F. 1774 or 5-1817. - Contributor

Publication

2004 - University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin

Language

English

Word Count

61,000 words, Guess

Page Count

244 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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Classifications

  • DDC306.3/62/092
  • LCCE444.B86 B58 2004

Alternate Titles

  • Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, nicknamed Jeffery Brace

Description

"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"--Publisher.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography.

Other Editions

  • The blind African slave, or, Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, nicknamed Jeffery BraceUniversity of Wisconsin Press2004-01-01

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