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Bibb, Henry, 1815-1854We have 1 book for this author.Henry Bibb (1815-1854) was an author and abolitionist who was born a slave, and who ran away to Canada. BiographyHe was born to a slave woman, Milldred Jackson, and supposedly to James Bibb, a Kentucky state senator, on a Kentucky plantation on May 10, 1815.[1] There he saw his seven siblings sold away to other slaveholders.[1] In 1833, he married a mulatto slave, Malinda, and they had a daughter, Mary Frances.[1] In 1842, he managed to flee to Detroit.[1] After finding out that Malinda had been sold as a mistress to a white planter, he focused on his career as an abolitionist.[1] In 1849-50 he published his autobiography[1], just before the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. He then fled to Canada and settled in Ontario with his second wife, Mary Miles Bibb.[1] In 1851, he set up the first black newspaper in Canada, Voice of the Fugitive.[1] It was in this paper that, in 1852, he published the account of three of his brothers who had also fled to Canada.[1] Bibliography
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