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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Vermont Genealogy
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society
Author: Vermont Historical Society
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Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Vermont Quarterly
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Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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The Historic Architecture of Rutland County
Author: Curtis B. Johnson
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
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A History of the Town of Poultney, Vermont, from Its Settlement to the Year 1875
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Category : Poultney (Vt.)
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Index to American Genealogies and to Genealogical Material Contained in All Works Such as Town Histories, County Histories, Local Histories, Historical Society Publications, Biographies, Historical Periodicals, and Kindred Works, Alphabetically Arranged
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Pages : 294
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The Blind African Slave
Author: Jeffrey Brace
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299201430
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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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 to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299201430
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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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 to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times.
The Genealogical Helper
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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The Historical Magazine
Author: John Ward Dean
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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