https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza Jessica Rembecki en-us 2018-02-20 13:03:41 UTC 2018-02-20 13:20:26 UTC hello@padlet.com s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233235411 Henry Walton Bibb, born into slavery, worked for at least three masters in Kentucky and Louisiana. He made several bids for freedom.]]> 2018-02-20 13:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233235411 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233235632 He made his way alone to Detroit in December 1840. There he joined the anti-slavery movement, travelling across Michigan, Ohio, and the northeastern states lecturing upon the evils of slavery. ]]> 2018-02-20 13:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233235632 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233235992 Bibb began publication of the Voice of the Fugitive, the first black newspaper in Upper Canada, at Sandwich on 1 Jan. 1851. ]]> 2018-02-20 13:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233235992 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233236186 Bibb was also a founding director of the Refugee Home Society, a black colonization project established in Detroit in May 1851 to help meet the needs of an estimated 25,000 to 35,000 fugitive slaves living in Canada.]]> 2018-02-20 13:18:04 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233236186 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233236589 Bibb was also closely associated with the anti-slavery movement in Canada. At Toronto on 11 Sept. 1851 he was elected chairman of the North American Convention of Colored Freemen,]]> 2018-02-20 13:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233236589 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233237000 The Voice of the Fugitive continued in print until a fire on 9 Oct. 1853 destroyed Bibb’s printing office. Thereafter, Bibb published a one-page newsletter until his premature death at Windsor on 1 Aug. 1854.]]> 2018-02-20 13:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233237000 s_jessica_rembecki https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233237097 2018-02-20 13:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/s_jessica_rembecki/wezf57vvgzza/wish/233237097