[1] Williams, G. W., History of the Negro Race in America, N. Y., 1883, Vol. II, p. 58.
[2] See The Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, written by himself, with an introduction by Lucius Matlack, New York, 1849. I am indebted to the Brooklyn Public Library for the loan of this book.
[3] Compare with this description of a New Orleans slave pen the descriptions of Richmond auctions by W. H. Russell, My Diary North and South, N. Y., 1863, page 68, and William Chambers, Things as they are in America, London, 1854, pages 273-286.
[4] He says that his object in going to Detroit was to get some schooling. He was unable to meet the expense, however, and as he puts it: "I graduated in three weeks and this was all the schooling I ever had in my life." His teacher for this brief period was W. C. Monroe who afterwards presided at John Brown's Chatham Convention in May, 1858.
[5] See Smith, Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest, New York, 1897.
[6] See The Journal of Negro History, Vol. V, No. 1, January, 1920, pp. 22-36.
[7] This plan was recommended by a convention of colored people held at Sandwich, C. W., early in 1851. See The Voice of the Fugitive, March 12, 1851. A file of this paper for 1851-2 is in the library of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
[8] The Voice of the Fugitive, June 4, 1851.
[9] The Voice of the Fugitive, Nov. 19, 1851.
[10] Ibid., Jan. 29, 1852. See also The Liberator, June 11, 1852.