Life Span
to
Full name
Henry Walton Bibb
Place of Birth
Shelby County, KY
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Estimated
Gender
Male
Race
Mixed (Mulatto)
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
No. of Siblings
6
No. of Spouses
2
Family

Mildred Jackson (mother), James Bibb (father), Malinda (first wife), Mary Miles (second wife)

Occupation
Journalist
Writer or Artist
Relation to Slavery
Slave or Former Slave
Other Affiliations
Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
Underground Railroad
Date Title
Boston (MA) Liberator, “‘Old Brown’s’ Company of Rescued Slaves Burnt Out,” April 8, 1859
Chicago Style Entry Link
Cooper, Afua. "The Fluid Frontier: Blacks and the Detroit River Region: A Focus on Henry Bibb." Canadian Review of American Studies 30, no. 2 (2000): 129-149. view record
How to Cite This Page: "Bibb, Henry Walton," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5099.