Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself

_My safe arrival at Kentucky.--Surprise and delight to find my family.--Plan for their escape projected.--Return to Cincinnati.--My betrayal by traitors.--Imprisonment in Coving...

The circumstances of my courtship and marriage, I consider to be among the most remarkable events of my life while a slave. To think that after I had determined to carry out the...

_Letter from W.H. Gatewood.--My reply.--My efforts as a public lecturer.--Singular incident in Steubenville--Meeting with a friend of Whitfield in Michigan.--Outrage on a canal...

The reader may perhaps imagine what must have been my feelings when I found myself surrounded on the island with my little family, at midnight, by a gang of savage wolves. This...

In 1833, I had some very serious religious impressions, and there was quite a number of slaves in that neighborhood, who felt very desirous to be taught to read the Bible. There...

_Arrival at Louisville, Ky.--Efforts to sell me.--Fortunate escape from the man-stealers in the public street.--I return to Bedford, Ky.--The rescue of my family again attempted...

My intention was, to let no person know my business until I returned back to the North. I went to Cincinnati, and got a passage down on board of a boat just as I did the first t...

Some months after Malinda had recovered from her sickness, I got permission from the Deacon, on one Sabbath day, to attend a prayer meeting, on a neighboring plantation, with a...

_My first adventure for liberty.--Parting Scene.--Journey up the river.--Safe arrival in Cincinnati.--Journey to Canada.--Suffering from cold and hunger.--Denied food and shelte...

_Stratagem to get on board, the steamer.--My Irish friends.--My success in reaching Cincinnati.--Reflections on again seeing Kentucky.--I get employment in a hotel.--My fright a...

_Our arrival and examination at Vicksburg.--An account of slave sales.--Cruel punishment with the paddle.--Attempts to sell myself by Garrison's direction.--Amusing interview wi...

I now conclude my narrative, by reviewing briefly what I have written. This little work has been written without any personal aid or a knowledge of the English grammer, which mu...

The reader will remember that this brings me back to the time the Deacon had ordered me to be kept in confinement until he got a chance to sell me, and that no negro should ever...

Early in the morning I left the Indian territory as I have already said, for fear I might be pursued by the three white men whom I had seen there over night; but I had not proce...

_Character of my prison companions.--Jail breaking contemplated.--Defeat of our plan.--My wife and child removed.--Disgraceful proposal to her, and cruel punishment.--Our depart...

_Character of my Indian Master.--Slavery among the Indians less cruel.--Indian carousal.--Enfeebled health of my Indian Master.--His death.--My escape.--Adventure in a wigwam.--...

My first impressions when I arrived on the Deacon's farm, were that he was far more like what the people call the devil, than he was like a deacon. Not many days after my arriva...

I was born May 1815, of a slave mother, in Shelby County, Kentucky, and was claimed as the property of David White Esq. He came into possession of my mother long before I was bo...

Gatewood some time in 1838 I think, and was heard of in Cincinnati. Myself and some others went there and took him, and took him to Louisville for sale, by the directions of his...

In view of the failure to hear any thing of my wife, many of my best friends advised me to get married again, if I could find a suitable person. They regarded my former wife as...

But it seems that I am not now beyond the reach of the foul slander of slaveholders. They are not satisfied with selling and banishing me from my native State. As soon as they g...