Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-Named Jeffrey Brace (1810 Harry Whitney Edition) (Q4991)
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1810 Harry Whitney Edition
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-Named Jeffrey Brace (1810 Harry Whitney Edition) |
1810 Harry Whitney Edition |
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[1 of 3] THE | Blind African Slave, | OR MEMOIRS OF | BOYREREAU BRINCH, | NICK-NAMED | JEFFREY BRACE. | Containing an account of the kingdom of Bow-Woo, in the interior of African with the soil, climate and natural reproductions, laws and customs peculiar to that place.
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[2 of 3] With an account of his captivity, sufferings, sales, travels, eman-cipation, conversion to the christian religion, knowledge of the scriptures, &c. Interspersed with strictures on slavery, speculative observa-tions on the qualities of human nature, with quotations from scripture.
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[3 of 3] [double rule] | By BENJAMIN F. PRENTISS, ESQ. | [double rule] | St. ALBANS, Vt. | PRINTED BY HARRY WHITNEY. | 1810.
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[1 of 5] DISTRICT OF VERMONT, ss. | L. S. Be it remembered, that on the twentieth day of June, in the thirty fourth year the Indepen-dence of the U. States of America, Benjamin Franklin Prentiss, Esq. of St. Albans, in said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the rights whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: [em dash]
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[2 of 5] "The Blind African Slave, or memoirs of Boyre-reau Brinch, nick-named Jeffrey Brace. Contain-ing an account of the kingdom of Bow-Woo, in the in-terior of Africa, with the soil, climate and natural productions, laws and customs peculiar to that place. With an account of his captivity, sufferings, sales, travels, emancipation, conversion to the christian reli-gion,
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[3 of 5] knowledge of the scriptures, &c. Interspersed with strictures on slavery, speculative observations on the qualities of human nature, with quotations of scripture. By Benjamin Franklin Prentiss, Esq." | In conformity to the act of the Congress of the U. States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books,
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[4 of 5] to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also in conformity to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;
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[5 of 5] and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." | JESSE GOVE, | Clerk of the District of Vermont. | A true copy of Record, JESSE GOVE, Clerk.
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page 201
jungle bush in the foreground with what seems to be a building or a boat in the distance. "MIRIFICA SUNT OPERA DEI" appears in the image.
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