The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-Named Jeffrey Brace.

The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-Named Jeffrey Brace.

Brinch, Boyrereau and Prentiss, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1774 or 1775-1817

1810

Author: Brinch, Boyrereau and Prentiss, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1774 or 1775-1817; Publication Information: St. Albans [VT]: Printed by Harry Whitney, 1810.

UNC Documenting the South

Containing an account of the kingdom of Bow-Woo, in the interior 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 religion, knowledge of the Scriptures, &c. : Interspersed with strictures on slavery, speculative observations on the qualities of human nature, with quotations from Scripture.

Printed by Harry Whitney

St. Albans [VT]

204 p.

Franklin County Advertiser?

"DISTRICT OF VERMONT, on the twentieth day of June, in the thirty fourth year of the Independence of the U. States of America, Benjamin Franklin Prentiss, Esq. of St. Albans…"

Questionable as to whether Brinch (aka Jeffrey Brace) or his white emanuensis Prentiss initiated publishing. Prentiss is copyright holder: deposited a copy of the title page in June. The book's upcoming publication was advertised for the next 5 months in the newspaper where the eighteen year old apprentice printer, Whitney, worked. Interestingly, newspaper went out of business within days of the book's publication.
See Kari J. Winter, "The Strange Career of Benjamin Franklin Prentiss, Antislavery Lawyer," Vermont History Vol. 79, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 2011): 121–140. https://vermonthistory.org/journal/79/VHS7902BenjaminFranklinPrentiss.pdf