Blind African Slave Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace

Name: Blind African Slave Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
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ISBN: 9780299201449

ISBN-10: 0299201449

ISBN-13: 9780299201449

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jeffrey Brace, Benjamin F. Prentiss, Kari J. Winter

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 1/10/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Kari J. Winter is a professor of American studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is editor ofThe Blind African Slave: or, Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace.