description: Remarkable account records the life of a former slave who, in 1825, at the age of ten, made his first attempt to escape from slavery. Bibb's compelling autobiography describes slave folkways in detail, tells of desperate efforts to recover his wife and child, and presents a touching self-portrait of a man caught between a slave past and a free future.
language: English
title: Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave
titlecomplete: Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave
genres: Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Classics, History, Research, African American
ratings_count: 188
series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
publisher: Indypublish.Com