{"id":56484,"date":"2018-06-06T19:37:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56484"},"modified":"2018-06-06T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:38:09","slug":"narrative-of-the-life-and-adventures-of-henry-bibb-an-american-slave-written-by-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56484","title":{"rendered":"Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncpress.org\/book\/9781469647586\/narrative-of-the-life-and-adventures-of-henry-bibb-an-american-slave-written-by-himself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncpress.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of North Carolina Press<\/a><br \/>\nJune 2018 (Originally published in 1849)<br \/>\n156 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9, 18 halftones<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-4758-6<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Bibb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henry Bibb<\/a> (1815-1854)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncpress.org\/book\/9781469647586\/narrative-of-the-life-and-adventures-of-henry-bibb-an-american-slave-written-by-himself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sp-product__image\" src=\"https:\/\/d1xwerhqtnbyw0.cloudfront.net\/resized\/width-280\/path-assets\/covers\/v2\/9781469647586.jpg\" alt=\"Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A DocSouth Book, Distributed for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Henry Bibb (1815-1854) was born to an enslaved woman named Mildred Jackson in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shelby_County,_Kentucky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shelby County, Kentucky<\/a>. His father was a state senator who never acknowledged him. His narrative documents his persistent attempts to escape to freedom, beginning at age ten, offering an insider\u2019s view of the degradation and varieties of slavery as well as its bitter legacies within families. Having finally settled in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Detroit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit<\/a> in 1842, Bibb joined the abolitionist lecture circuit and lived the rest of his days as a well-known African American activist who believed that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a> might offer a haven for the formerly enslaved.<\/p>\n<p>Bibb\u2019s autobiography, <em>Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave<\/em>, was published in 1849. Scholars have pointed out that Bibb\u2019s narrative has several distinguishing features among the larger body of slave narratives. Unusually, Bibb survived enslavement in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_South\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deep South<\/a> and later described it, and his narrative offers documentation of African folkways including conjuring and an account of Native American slaveholding practices as well. Henry Bibb was above all resilient and determined to achieve freedom for himself and others. Unwilling to abandon those he loved, he risked recapture several times to free them from enslavement, too. In the small span of his thirty-nine years he would live to be reunited with three of his brothers who had fled to Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His narrative documents his persistent attempts to escape to freedom, beginning at age ten, offering an insider\u2019s view of the degradation and varieties of slavery as well as its bitter legacies within families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,6940,20],"tags":[12152,667],"class_list":["post-56484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-henry-bibb","tag-university-of-north-carolina-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56485,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56484\/revisions\/56485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}