The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery (First Edition, Student)

Author/Contributor(s):	Jacobs, John Swanson
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	11/13/2024
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"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, is a major historical event. His work is all the more significant for having been written and published in Australia, outside the sanitizing and bowdlerizing influence of the American Abolitionist movement. Jacobs's full account is a startling and clear expression of the true thoughts, words, and wide-ranging experiences of a man once enslaved. This is a student edition of the narrative only, without any annotation or other text"--