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I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives
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Hardcover. Includes firsthand accounts of slavery from across the Palmetto State. This title presents a representative cross section of slave experiences, from religious awakenings and artisan apprenticeships to sexual exploitations and harrowing escapes. Editor(s): Ashton, Susanna. Num Pages: 344 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
This title includes rare firsthand accounts of slavery from across the Palmetto State collected together for the first time. Out of the hundreds of published slave narratives, only a handful exist specific to South Carolina, and most of these are not readily available to modern readers. Edited by Susanna Ashton, this collection restores to print seven slave narratives documenting the lived realities of slavery as it existed across the Palmetto State's upcountry, midlands, and lowcountry, from plantation culture to urban servitude. First published between the late eighteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth, these richly detailed firsthand accounts present ... Read more
This title includes rare firsthand accounts of slavery from across the Palmetto State collected together for the first time. Out of the hundreds of published slave narratives, only a handful exist specific to South Carolina, and most of these are not readily available to modern readers. Edited by Susanna Ashton, this collection restores to print seven slave narratives documenting the lived realities of slavery as it existed across the Palmetto State's upcountry, midlands, and lowcountry, from plantation culture to urban servitude. First published between the late eighteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth, these richly detailed firsthand accounts present ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570039003
SKU
V9781570039003
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Ref
99-1
About
Susanna Ashton 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.
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