The odyssey of an African slave

The narrative

Slave and master

Life in Africa

Life before captivity

Capture and enslavement

House slave in a British settlement

The Middle Passage to Charleston

"Like a son"

In the family of Josiah Smith

Savannah, then north to Connecticut

Back south and captured again

Working with the Smith estate

A slave's view of Spanish St. Augustine

On becoming a freedman

As Methodist minister in St. Augustine

Jack's attitude toward his enslaved status

Epilogue

Appendix A: Chronology

Appendix B: Condition of the manuscript

Appendix C: Analysis of Sitiki's language

Appendix D: Buckingham Smith's last will and testament

Appendix E: Jack Smith's obituary.