Henry Bibb was born a slave in Shelby County, Kentucky where he was sold and resold six times before managing to escape. Bibb, his wife Malinda and their daughter Frances tried to break free several times, which resulted in the permanent separation of his wife and daughter. Bibb was sold to the Deep South, never to see them again. His lost family and inhumane acts of slavery did not deter Bibb from freedom. He escaped one final time, moved to Michigan and worked with an anti-slavery group. Bibb taught himself to read and write, and worked along with Fredrick Douglass and William Wells Brown. Henry Bibb reestablished himself in Canada where he started an anti-slavery newspaper, The Voice of the Fugitive. Henry Bibb was a religious man, but he expressed his distaste of slave owners who used religion as a method of enslavement. In a letter to his former owner Albert G. Sibley, he wrote: “You profess to be a Christian, a leader in the M.E. Church, and the representative of the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet you sold my mother from her little children, and sent them away to a distant land, you sold my brother George from his wife and dear little ones while he was a worthy member, and Clergyman, of the same church, to which you belong.” Henry Bibb had a profound impact on the abolitionist movement in America.