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My life in the south.

Biography of Stroyer, an freedman raised on a plantation in South Carolina and freed in 1864 by the Emancipation Proclamation. Stroyer was minister of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Salem. The introduction contains letters of support for...

GLC00267.083

My Life in the South

One book entitled My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer published 1885. The first section of the narrative covers Stroyer's fifteen years in slavery. It provides information about his family, describes life at his master's summer seat, and discusses...

GLC09946