I belong to South Carolina : South Carolina slave narratives /

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Imprint:Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 317 pages) : map
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143000
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Other authors / contributors:Ashton, Susanna, 1967-
Adams, Robyn E.
ISBN:9781611171679
1611171679
9781570039003
1570039003
9781570039010
1570039011
1283583836
9781283583831
9786613896285
6613896284
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:This collection restores to print seven slave narratives documenting the lived realities of slavery as it existed across the Palmetto State's upcountry, midlands, and lowcountry, from plantation culture to urban servitude.--From publisher description.
Other form:Print version: I belong to South Carolina. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©2010 9781570039003
Table of Contents:
  • Memoirs of the life of Boston King, a black preacher (1798)
  • "Clarinda: a pious Colored woman of South Carolina" (1875)
  • "Recollections of slavery by a runaway slave" (1838)
  • The experience of a slave in South Carolina, by John Andrew Jackson (1862)
  • My life in the South, by Jacob Stroyer (1885)
  • Life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days, or a story based on facts by the Reverend I.E. Lowery (1911)
  • Before the war and after the Union: an autobiography, by Sam Aleckson (1929)
  • Afterword: the slave experience in South Carolina.