Contents
Introduction: A Global Slave Narrative
A Note on the Text
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery, by 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, by 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 by John Swanson Jacobs
Appendix 2: Writings on John Swanson Jacobs
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Index