- Collection:
- African American Literature
- Title:
- My life in the South
- Creator:
- Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908
- Date of Original:
- 1885
- Subject:
- Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908
Slaves--South Carolina--Biography
African Americans--South Carolina--Biography
Slavery--South Carolina
Slaves--South Carolina--Social life and customs
Slaves' writings, American--South Carolina - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
- Medium:
- monographs
slave narratives. rbgenr
african american author
electronic reproductions - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- African American pamphlet. local
GEU
Jacob Stroyer was born a slave on the Singleton plantation near Columbia, South Carolina in 1849 and lived there until the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in 1864. During the Civil War, he was sent to Sullivan's Island and Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, where he waited on Confederate officers. While there, Stroyer learned to read. Following his release from slavery, Jacob Stroyer settled in Salem, Massachusetts, and became minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church there. This new and enlarged edition of Stroyer's narrative, My Life in the South, expands upon earlier editions, and was written with the hope of generating enough income to complete his education. The narrative covers his fifteen years in slavery providing information about his family, his life at his master's summer seat as well as the physical abuse he endured at the hands of the Singleton plantation's overseer. Stroyer also discusses the emotional strain that the slave trade put on his and other slave families and provides a series of brief anecdotes about slave life, culture, beliefs, and interactions with masters and slaves.
"Third edition"--Preface, p. 8.
Earlier eds. published with tile: Sketches of my life in the South.
Electronic reproduction.
digitized
The online edition of this book in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Publications Program. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/b6p23/PDF
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
- Rights:
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