https://padlet.com/s_sewell_cooper/wwlc3og2ub27 An American Slave en-us 2018-02-09 16:53:08 UTC 2025-12-04 12:56:06 UTC hello@padlet.com s_sewell_cooper https://padlet.com/s_sewell_cooper/wwlc3og2ub27/wish/230108391 Henry Walton Bibb was born in rural Shelby County, Kentucky, on May 10,
1815. 
Henry fell in love when he was about 19 with a beautiful girl named Malinda, who lived on another farm in the area.
He fled first across the Ohio River to Cincinnati in 1837 and stayed a
winter with a fugitive slave community at Gettysburg
By December of
1840, he had made his way to Michigan.v He met important antislavery figures such as
Frederick Douglass, who had been enslaved in Maryland but escaped, and William
Wells Brown who was also born in Kentucky but escaped from Missouri.
Henry Bibb attended an African American abolitionist convention in
Detroit in 1843.
He became a lecturer and by 1844 was traveling in the Northern states
agitating against the institution of slavery.
The situation in which Henry Bibb found himself was very dangerous, for there
was a law passed by the US Congress in 1793 - the same year that Upper Canada
stopped importing slaves and took steps to end slavery in British North
America. 
In 1847, Henry Bibb attended an antislavery gathering in
New York. There he met a very intelligent and interesting woman named
Mary Elizabeth Miles.
Mary Miles and Henry Bibb married at Dayton, Ohio, in June 1848. 
After the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, Henry
and Mary Bibb moved across the Detroit River where they
would be safe. 
 The flagship issue was printed on January 1, 1851, and
promoted the three themes of antislavery, agriculture and temperance, the latter a
popular 19th-century cause that tried to stop people from drinking alcohol.
There was no more free government land available, so
a group of businessmen from Detroit joined the Bibbs in May of 1851 in
founding a new organization - the “Refugee Home Society”.
The Voice of the Fugitive newspaper office mysteriously burnt to the
ground on October 9, 1853.
Although Henry and Mary tried to revive the publication,
Henry died in the summer of 1854 after a short illness. He was only 39 years old.

]]> 2018-02-09 17:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/s_sewell_cooper/wwlc3og2ub27/wish/230108391 s_sewell_cooper https://padlet.com/s_sewell_cooper/wwlc3og2ub27/wish/230161718 Bibb, Henry Walton (10 May 1815–1854), author, editor, and antislavery lecturer, was born into slavery on the plantation of David White of Shelby County, Kentucky, the son of James Bibb, a slaveholding planter and state senator, and Mildred Jackson. White began hiring Bibb out as a laborer on several neighboring plantations before the age of ten. The constant change in living situations throughout his childhood, combined with the inhumane treatment he often received at the hands of strangers, set a pattern for life that he would later refer to in his autobiography as “my manner of living on the road.” Bibb was sold more than six times between 1832 and 1840 and was forced to relocate to at least seven states throughout the South; later, as a free man, his campaign for abolition took him throughout eastern Canada and the northern United States. But such early instability also made the young Bibb both self-sufficient and resourceful, two characteristics that were useful against the day-to-day assault of slavery: “The only weapon of self defense that I could use successfully,” he wrote, “was that of deception.”...]]> 2018-02-09 18:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/s_sewell_cooper/wwlc3og2ub27/wish/230161718 s_sewell_cooper https://padlet.com/s_sewell_cooper/wwlc3og2ub27/wish/230640186 2018-02-12 15:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s_sewell_cooper/wwlc3og2ub27/wish/230640186 s_sewell_cooper https://padlet.com/s_sewell_cooper/wwlc3og2ub27/wish/230652120 2018-02-12 15:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/s_sewell_cooper/wwlc3og2ub27/wish/230652120 s_sewell_cooper https://padlet.com/s_sewell_cooper/wwlc3og2ub27/wish/230658782 2018-02-12 16:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/s_sewell_cooper/wwlc3og2ub27/wish/230658782