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My life in the South

Title
  1. My life in the South / by Jacob Stroyer.
Published by
  1. Salem, Mass. : Newcomb & Gauss, printers, 1898.
Author
  1. Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908

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Additional authors
  1. Newcomb & Gauss, printer
Description
  1. 100 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 19 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  1. Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908
  2. Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908 -- Portraits
  3. Slavery -- South Carolina
  4. African Americans -- South Carolina -- Biography
  5. Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Biography
  6. Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs
  7. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
  8. Black author
Genre/Form
  1. Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
Call number
  1. Sc Rare 326.92-S (Stroyer, J. My life in the South)
Language
  1. English
Note
  1. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by Jacob Stroyer, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
  2. "Fourth Edition."--verso of title page.
  3. Originally published as "Sketches of my life in the south" in 1879.
Provenance (note)
  1. inscribed: in ink on frontispiece portrait "Compliments of the author-- Jacob Stroyer." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Local note
  1. Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-17140.
Author
  1. Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908.
Title
  1. My life in the South / by Jacob Stroyer.
Imprint
  1. Salem, Mass. : Newcomb & Gauss, printers, 1898.
Edition
  1. New and enlarged edition.
Provenance
  1. Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-S (accession no. B594117) inscribed: in ink on frontispiece portrait "Compliments of the author-- Jacob Stroyer." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
Biography
  1. Stroyer was a slave in South Carolina, became a minister and served as a preacher at the Salem Colored Mission in Salem, Mass. He spent time in Alabama as a part-time student at the Talladega Theological Seminary.
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Local subject
  1. Black author.
Added author
  1. Newcomb & Gauss, printer.
  2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research call number
  1. Sc Rare 326.92-S (Stroyer, J. My life in the South)
  2. Sc Rare C 79-1
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