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My Life in the South

by Jacob Stroyer

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Born on a South Carolina plantation in 1849, Jacob Stroyer recalls his childhood longing to be a horseman, the beatings he endured, the sale of family and neighbours, and the folk stories told in the quarters. Later chapters describe his forced labour on Confederate fortifications at Charleston during the Civil War.

A plain, vivid first-person record of slavery by a man who became a minister in Massachusetts. Download the free EPUB.

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