I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives

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Title

I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives

This edition

"I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives." Ed. Susanna Ashton, et al. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2010. ix+317 pp.

Table of contents

(from WorldCat):
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.

Reviews and notices of anthology

● Pearson, Ted. H-CivWar. H-Net Online. June 2011.
"a significant addition to the library of printed primary sources on slavery and freedom in the nineteenth-century South."

Item Number

A0500

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