Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb An American Slave

Name: Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb An American Slave
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ISBN: 9780299168940

ISBN-10: 0299168948

ISBN-13: 9780299168940

Edition: 2001

Authors: Henry Bibb, Charles J. Heglar

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nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;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. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 2/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

KARL M. KADISH is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston, Texas. RODNEY S. RUOFF is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University