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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery by John Swanson Jacobs

 Author: Patrick Young  Published Date: July 25, 2024  Leave a Comment on The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery by John Swanson Jacobs

Jacobs, John Swanson. The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography by…

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Harriet Jacobs’s Brother’s “Slave Narrative” Comes to Light After Being Lost for 164 Years

 Author: admin  Published Date: May 24, 2024  7 Comments on Harriet Jacobs’s Brother’s “Slave Narrative” Comes to Light After Being Lost for 164 Years

In today’s New York Times Jennifer Schuessler tells the story of a long-lost “slave narrative” that was just published by the University of Chicago Press….

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Harriet Jacobs Describes Her Relief Work Among Liberated Former Slaves Near Savannah in 1866

 Author: Patrick Young  Published Date: January 5, 2020  1 Comment on Harriet Jacobs Describes Her Relief Work Among Liberated Former Slaves Near Savannah in 1866

Illustration: Freedpeople in Charleston from Frank Leslie’s April 25, 1865. Harriet Jacobs is today well-known as the author of Incidents in the Life of a…

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