Jacob Stroyer (ca. 1846 - February 7, 1908) was an African-American former slave who became preacher in Massachusetts. He is best known for his autobiography, My Life in the South. Stroyer was born on the Kensington Plantation in Eastover, South Carolina in either 1846 or 1849. Stroyer's father, Jacob, was born in Sierra Leone and was captured and brought to America as a youth. The younger Stroyer knew little about his father's family background, other than the names of his paternal grandparents. Stroyer's mother, Chloe, was born in South Carolina where her family had been enslaved for...