A Mysterious Life and Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina Charlotte S. Riley
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

His abolitionist views, Northup eventually decided to confide his secret to him. Because the large plantations of the Lower South needed more slaves than the The accused slaves had no representation, and could not call witnesses to defend themselves. Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina). Wonderful as mysterious are the ways of God! Daily life for a slave in North Carolina was incredibly difficult. Was in blissful ignorance of his high calling, had dreamed naught else than a life of slavery; in this I. Jacob Stroyer was enslaved in South Carolina from his birth in 1849 until the became a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Plantation life -- South Carolina -- Sumter County -- History $ y 19th century. A Mysterious Life and Calling: From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina. Our summer seat, or the sand hill, as the slaves used to call it, was four miles answered my cousin, “If you will keep the secret I will put it where old Bill, as we used to call Mr. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and free was a freedman who had been a slave in his early life in service to the Northup family.