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OverviewBorn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeffrey Brace , Benjamin F. Prentiss , Kari J. Winter , Kari J. WinterPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780299201449ISBN 10: 0299201449 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 31 December 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsIt is my anxious wish that this simple narrative may be the means of opening the hearts of those who hold slaves and move them to consent to give them the freedom which... all mankind have an equal right to possess. - Jeffrey Brace, from The Blind African Slave It is my anxious wish that this simple narrative may be the means of opening the hearts of those who hold slaves and move them to consent to give them the freedom which... all mankind have an equal right to possess. - Jeffrey Brace, from The Blind African Slave Author InformationKari 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |