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Stroyer Jacob <1849-1908.> |
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Titolo |
My life in the South / / By Jacob Stroyer |
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Scituate, Mass., : Digital Scanning, 2001 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (89 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"The autobiography of an emancipated slave, born and raised on an extensive plantation in central South Carolina."--Introd. |
"As published in 1885." |
Originally published: My life in the South. Salem: Salem Observer Book and Job Print, 1889. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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MY LIFE IN THE SOUTH. -- INTRODUCTION. -- PREFACE. -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. -- THE CHILDREN. -- SAND-HILL DAYS. -- THE STORY OF GILBERT. -- MASTER AND MISTRESS VISITING. -- MOTHER -- CHAPTER II -- THE SALE OF MY TWO SISTERS. -- THE WAY THE SLAVES LIVED. -- JOE AND THE TURKEY. -- THE CUSTOM ON CHRISTMAS. -- PUNISHMENTS INFLICTED ON DIFFERENT ONES. -- THE PUNISHMENT AND SALE OF MONDAY. -- THE STORY OF JAMES HAY. -- THE STORY OF MR.USOM AND JACK. -- THE STORY OF JAMES SWINE, AND HIS DEATH. -- A MAN MISTAKEN FOR A HOG. -- CUSTOM OF WITCHES AMONG SLAVES. -- THE DEATH OF CYRUS AND STEPNEY. -- THE WAY THE SLAVES DETECTED THIEVES AMONG THEMSELVES -- JOSH AND THE CORN. -- RUNAWAY SLAVES -- THE RUNAWAY SLAVES IN THE HOUSE. -- MR.BLACK, THE SLAVE HUNTER. -- MANNING BROWN AND AUNT BETTY. |
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