The United States governed by six hundred thousand despots a true story of slavery : a rediscovered narrative, with a full biography
"Narratives written by enslaved Africans in America are few in number. Some are transformative, like that of Harriet Jacobs; others are lesser, like the brief one attributed to Harriet's brother, John S. Jacobs. The revelation, here, of a much longer, richer, and more radical version of John's story...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- The death of Mrs. Hannablue, and the sale of her slaves at public auction
- The happy family, or practical Christianity
- Brutality and murder among slaves
- The different ways of punishing slaves
- My sister has run away, my aunt, two children, and myself sent to Gaol
- My fifth and last master
- Dr. Sawyer's death, his brother's election to Congress, and marriage, and my escape from him
- My voyage to the South seas, and the object of the voyage, my sister's escape, and our meeting
- The laws of the United States respecting slavery
- The agreement between the North and South at the adoption of the constitution ; The Declaration of American Independence, with interlineations of United States and state laws
- No longer yours: the lives of John Swanson Jacobs / Jonathan D.S. Schroeder. Prologue. Bondservants of liberty ; Toward a new grammar of justice ; The world my country
- Epilogue: Afterlives. John Jacobs at first sight: notes on a frontispiece.
