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John S. Jacobs: a first-hand account of a fugitive slave.

2024/6/11
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Literary historian Jonathan Schroeder has unearthed a rare and remarkable story written in 1855 by John S. Jacobs about his fight for freedom from slavery and his fierce denunciation of the American laws that allowed it.