"Henry Walton Bibb"(May 10,1815-

Was an American author and abolitionist who was born a slave.After 

escaping from slavery to Canada,he founded an abolitionist newspaper,The Voice of the Fugitive.He return to the US and lectured against slavery.Henry was born to an enslaved woman Mildered Jackson,on a Cantalonia,Kentucky,plantation.His people told him his white daddy was James Bibb,a Kentucky state senator,Henry knew him.As e was rowing up,Henry saw each of his six younger siblings,all boys,sold away to other slaveholders.In 1883 Henry married another mulatto slave,Malinda,who lived in Oldham County Kentucky.They had one daughter,Mary Frances.
In 1842,he managed to flee to Detroit,from where he hoped to gain the freedom of Malinda & Mary Frances.After finding out that Malinda had been
sold as a mistress to a white planter,Henry focused on his career as an abolitionist.He traveled and lectured throughout the United States.
In 1849-50 he published his autobiography Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb,An American Slave,written by Himself,Which became the best known slave narratives of the antebellum south years.The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 increased the danger to Henry and his second wife Mary E.Miles of Boston.It required Northerners to cooperative in the capture of escape slaves.To ensure their safety,the Bibbs migrated to Canada and setted in Sandwich,Upper Canada now Windsor,Ontario.In 1851,Henry set up the first black newspaper in Canada,the Voice of the Fugitive.The paper helped developed a more sympathetic climate for blacks in Canada as well as helped new arrivals to adjust.Due to his fame as an author,Henry was reunited with three of hi brothers,who separately had escaped from slavery in Canada,in 1852 he published their accouts in his newspaper.