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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
Henry Bibb
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Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother at a very young age and hired out to other slave owners for most of his childhood. Always yearning for his freedom, he made his first escape from slavery in 1842. He was recaptured and escaped, recaptured and escaped over and over; but he never gave up on his desire to be a man in control of his own destiny.
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother at a very young age and hired out to other slave owners for most of his childhood. Always yearning for his freedom, he made his first escape from slavery in 1842. He was recaptured and escaped, recaptured and escaped over and over; but he never gave up on his desire to be a man in control of his own destiny.
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[pg 26] CHAPTER III.
My Courtship and Marriage.—Change of owner.—My first born.—Its sufferings.—My wife abused.—My own anguish.
THE circumstances of my courtship and marriage, I consider to be among the most remarkable events of my life while a slave. To think that after I had determined to carry out the great idea which is s. . . Read More
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This man is woefully underrated. His experiences should be required reading. There is some hyperbole, and some of the narrative was fitted to meet the needs of the abolitionist movement at the time of publication, but the majority of this work has been verified as accurate. A primary source on the e
I don't remember the details, but I do remember it was a fast-paced engaging read. I think Bibb was one of the few slaves to give a narrative either after living in the deep south or being slave to an American Indian. For that reason alone this is a standout among slave narratives. Beyond that, it's
In this novel former slave Henry Bibb discusses his life as a slave on a Kentucky plantation. Henry Bibb was born to Mildred Jackson and James Bibb a white man. at age 10 Henry attempts to escape slavery. He later moves to Missouri where he gets married to another slave named Malinda and they have a
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I have read a number of slave autobiographies and this was by far the best. Somehow the visceral feel of this state was made so clear in this book. Having every indignity of physical, emotional and sexual nature put on one or watching this done to others without being able to lift a finger
Simply engaging; everyone should read it.
This is one of the those books that everyone should read.