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My life in the South
- Title
- My life in the South / by Jacob Stroyer.
- Author
- Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908.
- Publication
- Salem, Mass. : Newcomb & Gauss, printers, 1898.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Restricted use | Sc Rare 326.92-S (Stroyer, J. My life in the South) | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc Rare C 79-1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Newcomb & Gauss, printer.
- Description
- 100 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 19 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908
- Enslaved persons > South Carolina > Social life and customs
- Enslaved persons > South Carolina > Biography
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
- African Americans > South Carolina > Biography
- Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908 > Portraits
- Slavery > South Carolina
- Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
- Black author
- Genre/Form
- Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
- Note
- "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.
- "Fourth Edition."--verso of title page.
- Originally published as "Sketches of my life in the south" in 1879.
- Provenance (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare 326.92-S (Stroyer, J. My life in the South)
- OCLC
- 3968024
- NYPGR3968024-B
- Author
- Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908.
- Title
- My life in the South / by Jacob Stroyer.
- Imprint
- Salem, Mass. : Newcomb & Gauss, printers, 1898.
- Edition
- New and enlarged edition.
- Provenance
- 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
- 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.
- Local Note
- Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro F-17140.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Newcomb & Gauss, printer.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare 326.92-S (Stroyer, J. My life in the South)Sc Rare C 79-1