Notes
Collection: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2014. Digitized from a copy held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Summary
A long, detailed letter from Bibb, the noted runaway slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad, telling Calkins of Wilbraham, Mass., how his money was spent in aiding runaway slaves who had travelled on the Underground Railroad, particularly those who had just arrived in Canada. In part: The next sum was used to aid a sick man who had [been] but a short time in Canada before he was attacked with the intiminant fever... He must have died had I not procured medical aid for him. Bibb lectured widely and published a number of works, including his Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb. In 1851 he founded Canada's first Negro newspaper. Burnhole on first page, upper right, affecting text.
Variant and related titles
American history, 1493-1945. Module I.