The Black Experience in the Civil War South Book

This is a remarkable slave narrative. It's obvious from Bibb's general attitude toward life and, particularly, life under slavery, that he was an outsized character. He escaped from slavery many, many times during his life, frequently returning in attempts to free his family (he never succeeded). He has several trenchant observations regarding the religion of slaveholders (ostensibly Christians, but ones who have no qualms about separating and selling members of their own churches down the river), "free" vs. slave states (particularly Ohio and Michigan), tricks of escaping from slave states via steamboat (it was illegal for captains to take African-Americans, free or otherwise, from slave states without certain rules and routines), differences in the style of slavery practiced by European-Americans and Native Americans (his last owner was a Cherokee, on Cherokee lands), and many other topics. This book should be better known than it appears to me to be.