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

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

"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