I Belong to South Carolina

by Ashton, Susanna; Adams, Robyn E. (CON); Blanton, Maximilien (CON); Bridges, Laura V. (CON); Culler, E. Langston (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781570039010
• ISBN10: 1570039011
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-30
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Summary

Rare firsthand accounts of slavery from across the Palmetto State collected together for the first time

Author Biography

is an associate professor and associate chair in the Department of English at Clemson University. She is the author of Collaborators in Literary America. 1870-1920 and coeditor of These "Colored" United States: African American Essays from the 1920s.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Editorial Method	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher (1798)	p. 14
"Clarinda: A Pious Colored Woman of South Carolina" (1875)	p. 40
"Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave" (1838)	p. 49
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina	p. 83
My Life in the South	p. 127
Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or a Story Based on Facts by the	p. 167
Before the War and after the Union: An Autobiography	p. 228
Afterword-the Slave Experience in South Carolina	p. 294
Index	p. 307
About the Editors	p. 318
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