The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb:  An American Slave (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
"Bibb's compelling narrative of escape and recapture, of love and renunciation, is virtually unique in the annals of the slave narrative.  Bibb offers a striking self-portrait of a man caught between two worlds, a slave past that he could not cast off or forget, and a future in freedom to which he urgently desired to commit himself.  Bibb's dilemmas touch our sympathies in ways that Frederick Douglass, who seemed to assimilate and succeed in the North without so much as a longing look backward, does not move us. —William L. Andrews, coeditor of the Library of America anthology "Slave Narratives"