A Slave Narrative Full Of Righteous Fury Reappears, Un-Bowdlerized, After 169 Years

John S. Jacobs escaped his master in 1839, joined a whaling crew and eventually landed in Australia, where he published The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots — a memoir of enslavement and escape and a ferocious critique of the US Constitution — in a Sydney newspaper in 1855. – The New York Times