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MY LIFE IN THE SOUTH.
MY LIFE IN THE SOUTH.
BY JACOB STROYER.
NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION.
SALEM, MASS.: Newcomb & Gauss, Printers. 1898.
Salem, Mass., September 19, 1898.
John Wright Buckham.
August 13, 1879.
In this book Mr. Stroyer has given us, with a most simple and effective realism, the inside view of the institution of slavery. It is worth reading, to know how men, intelligent enough to report their experience, felt under the yoke. The time has come when American slavery can be studied historically, without passion, save such as mixes itself with the wonder that so great an evil could exist so long as a social form or a political idol. The time has not come when such study is unnecessary; for to deal justly by white or black in the United States, their previous relations must be understood, and nothing which casts light on the most universal and practical of those relations is without value today. I take pleasure, therefore, in saying that I consider Mr. Stroyer a competent and trustworthy witness to these details of plantation life.
E.C. Bolles.
City of Salem, Mayor's Office, Nov. 5, 1884.
This is to certify that since the year 1876 I have known Rev. Jacob Stroyer as a preacher and minister to the colored people of this city. He is earnest, devoted and faithful.
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