The Blind African Slave: Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace

by Jeffrey Brace

Book Overview

The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (n 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299201406
• ISBN13: 9780299201401
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"