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Contents Acknowledgments | vii Editorial Method | ix Introduction | 1 Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher (1798) | 14 “Clarinda: A Pious Colored Woman of South Carolina” (1875) | 40 “Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave” (1838) | 49 The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, by John Andrew Jackson (1862) | 83 My Life in the South, by Jacob Stroyer (1885) | 127 Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or a Story Based on Facts by the Reverend I. E. Lowery (1911) | 167 Before the War and after the Union: An Autobiography, by Sam Aleckson (1929) | 228 Afterword—the Slave Experience in South Carolina | 294 Index | 307 This page intentionally left blank ...

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