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 Jo...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : A Global Slave Nattative
- A Note on the Text
- I : The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots : A True Story Of Slavery / John Swanson Jacobs
- One : The death of Mrs. Hanablue, and the sale of her slaves at public auction
- Two: The happy family, or practical Christianity
- Three : Brutality and murder among slaves
- Four : The different ways of punishing slaves
- Five : My sister has run away, my aunt, two children, and myself sent to Gaol
- Six : My fifth and last master
- Seven : Dr. Sawyer's death, his brother's election to Congress, and marriage, and my escape from him
- Eight : My voyage to the South seas, and the object of the voyage, my sister's escape, and our meeting
- Nine : The laws of the United States respecting slavery
- Ten : The agreement between the North and South at the adoption of the constitution
- Eleven : 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
- One : Bondservants of liberty
- Two : Toward a new grammar of justice
- Three : The world my country
- Epilogue : Afterlives
- John Jacobs at first sight : notes on a frontispiece
- List of Emendations
- Appendix 1 : Writings of John Swanson Jacobs
- Appendix 2 : Writings on John Swanson Jacobs