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

"e;Narrative of the Life and Adventures of an American Slave"e; is a self-published autobiography by an American abolitionist and former slave, Henry Walton Bibb. His book is considered to be one of the best-known slave narratives of the antebellum years in USA. Henry Walton Bibb (1815 1854) was an American author and abolitionist who was born as a slave. After escaping from slavery to Canada, he founded an abolitionist newspaper, "e;The Voice of the Fugitive"e;. He returned to the US and lectured against slavery. Bibb died young, at the age of 39.