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"First published in 1849 and largely unavailable for many years, The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb is among the most remarkable slave narratives. Born on a Kentucky plantation in 1815, Bibb first attempted to escape from bondage at the age of ten. He was recaptured and escaped several more times before he eventually settled in Detroit, Michigan, and joined the antislavery movement as a lecturer." "Bibb's story is different in many ways from the widely read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. He was owned by a Native American; he is one of the few ex-slave autobiographers who had labored in the Deep South (Louisiana); and he writes about folkways of the slaves, especially how he used conjure to avoid punishment and to win the hearts of women. Most significant, he is unique in exploring the importance of marriage and family to him, recounting his several trips to free his wife and child. This new edition includes an introduction by literary scholar Charles Heglar and a selection of letters and editorials by Bibb."--BOOK JACKET.
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Jason Burnett
reviewed The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave on September 14, 2011 The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave
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.
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