I belong to South Carolina
Subtitle: South Carolina slave narratives : the lives of Boston King, Clarinda, "A runaway," John Andrew Jackson, Jacob Stroyer, Irving Lowery, and Sam Aleckson
By: edited by Susanna Ashton ; with the assistance of Robyn E. Adams ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ashton, Susanna, 1967-; Adams, Robyn E.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781570039003; 9781570039010
Subjects: Slave narratives -- South Carolina; Slaves -- South Carolina -- Biography; Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- Sources
Genres: Biography; Sources
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Memoirs of the life of Boston King, a black preacher; title: "Clarinda: a pious colored woman of South Carolina" (1875); title: "Recollections of slavery by a runaway slave" (1838); title: The experience of a slave in South Carolina, by John Andrew Jackson (1862); title: My life in the South, by Jacob Stroyer (1885); title: Life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days, or a story based on facts by the Reverend I. E. Lowery (1911); title: Before the war and after the union: an autobiography, by Sam Aleckson (1929); title: Afterword: the slave experience in South Carolina.