Just learned about the memoir "The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots" by John Swanson Jacobs.
John Swanson Jacobs was an enslaved person who escaped and travelled all over the world before writing his memoir in Australia, which makes it the only memoir of a formerly enslaved person we know of which was not edited by and published under the auspices of a white abolitionist.
It was lost for over 150 years and just rediscovered and reprinted last year. Sadly, it's being sold at academic prices, which means $20 for the ebook and over $100 for the hardcover. I plan to see if it's available through interlibrary loan.
Anyway, amazing bit of rediscovered history, check it out!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo213914021.html
