Born into slavery in Kentucky in 1815, Henry Bibb escaped to Ohio and then went back again and again to rescue his wife Malinda and their daughter. Recaptured, jailed and sold down the river to Louisiana and beyond, he describes the auction block, plantation labour, cruelty and his own unyielding attempts at freedom.
One of the most important slave narratives of the 1840s, by a man who later became an abolitionist editor in Canada. Download the free EPUB.