| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 317 pages) : map |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Slave narratives -- South Carolina
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Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Biography
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Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- Sources
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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Slave narratives
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Slavery
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Enslaved persons
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South Carolina
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Sources
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ashton, Susanna, 1967-
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Adams, Robyn E
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| LC no. |
2009051095 |
| ISBN |
9781611171679 |
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1611171679 |
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1283583836 |
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9781283583831 |
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9786613896285 |
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6613896284 |
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