The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots
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The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots
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Author : John Swanson Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-05-21
The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots written by John Swanson Jacobs and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with History categories.
Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. For one hundred and sixty-eight years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, is a startling and revolutionary discovery. A document like this—written by an ex-slave and ex-American, in language charged with all that can be said about America outside America, untampered with and unedited by white abolitionists—has never been seen before. A radical abolitionist, sailor, and miner, John Jacobs has a life story that is as global as it is American. Born into slavery, by 1855, he had fled both the South and the United States altogether, becoming a stateless citizen of the world and its waters. That year, he published his life story in an Australian newspaper, far from American power and its threats. Unsentimental and unapologetic, Jacobs radically denounced slavery and the state, calling out politicians and slaveowners by their names, critiquing America’s founding documents, and indicting all citizens who maintained the racist and intolerable status quo. Reproduced in full, this narrative—which entwines with that of his sister and with the life of their friend Frederick Douglass—here opens new horizons for how we understand slavery, race, and migration, and all that they entailed in nineteenth-century America and the world at large. The second half of the book contains a full-length, nine-generation biography of Jacobs and his family by literary historian Jonathan Schroeder. This new guide to the world of John Jacobs will transform our sense of it—and of the forces and prejudices built into the American project. To truly reckon with the lives of John Jacobs is to see with new clarity that in 1776, America embarked on two experiments at once: one in democracy, the other in tyranny.
The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots
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Author : John S. Jacobs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots written by John S. Jacobs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with African Americans categories.
"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"--
The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots
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Author : John Swanson Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-05-21
The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots written by John Swanson Jacobs and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-21 with History categories.
Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. For one hundred and sixty-eight years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, is a startling and revolutionary discovery. A document like this—written by an ex-slave and ex-American, in language charged with all that can be said about America outside America, untampered with and unedited by white abolitionists—has never been seen before. A radical abolitionist, sailor, and miner, John Jacobs has a life story that is as global as it is American. Born into slavery, by 1855, he had fled both the South and the United States altogether, becoming a stateless citizen of the world and its waters. That year, he published his life story in an Australian newspaper, far from American power and its threats. Unsentimental and unapologetic, Jacobs radically denounced slavery and the state, calling out politicians and slaveowners by their names, critiquing America’s founding documents, and indicting all citizens who maintained the racist and intolerable status quo. Reproduced in full, this narrative—which entwines with that of his sister and with the life of their friend Frederick Douglass—here opens new horizons for how we understand slavery, race, and migration, and all that they entailed in nineteenth-century America and the world at large. The second half of the book contains a full-length, nine-generation biography of Jacobs and his family by literary historian Jonathan Schroeder. This new guide to the world of John Jacobs will transform our sense of it—and of the forces and prejudices built into the American project. To truly reckon with the lives of John Jacobs is to see with new clarity that in 1776, America embarked on two experiments at once: one in democracy, the other in tyranny.
The New World Compared With The Old
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Author : George Alfred Townsend
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
The New World Compared With The Old written by George Alfred Townsend and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with France categories.
Annals Of The Congress Of The United States
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
Annals Of The Congress Of The United States written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with Law categories.
The Debates And Proceedings In The Congress Of The United States
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
The Debates And Proceedings In The Congress Of The United States written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with United States categories.
The Debates And Proceedings In The Congress Of The United States
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Author : Joseph Gales
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
The Debates And Proceedings In The Congress Of The United States written by Joseph Gales and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with United States categories.
Congressional Record
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
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The Democratic Almanac And Political Compendium
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
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Message Of The President Of The United States Of March 20 1866 Relating To The Condition Of Affairs In Mexico
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Author : United States. Department of State
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
Message Of The President Of The United States Of March 20 1866 Relating To The Condition Of Affairs In Mexico written by United States. Department of State and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Mexico categories.