Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave

I was brought up in [Kentucky]. Or, more correctly speaking, I was flogged up; for where I should have received moral, mental, and religious instruction I received stripes without number, the object of which was to degrade and keep me in subordination. I have been dragged down to the lowest depths of human degradation and wretchedness, by Slaveholders.—Henry Bibb.
First published in 1849 and long unavailable, this remarkable narrative records the life of a former slave, who, in 1825--at the a…