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206 one exceeds this in thrilling interest: and of all the subjects of them, no one appears to have seen and suffered so much as Mr. Bibb. It is a book for the rising generation in particular: and we could wish that as many copies of it might be sold during the present year, as there are slaves in the United States."

"This is a volume of 204 pages, handsomely printed on good paper and well bound. But it is not in the execution that the interest lies: it is in the thrilling incidents so well told. We have never been a great reader of novels, as all must know by our style of writing, yet we have read enough to know the almost resistless power which a well-executed tale, when once we commerce reading, exerts over the mind, until we reach the end: and did we not know the author, and know from the best of proof that the book is a true narrative, on reading it we should pronounce it a novel. The reader may rely upon its truth, and yet he will find it so full of touching incidents, daring adventures, and hair-breadth escapes, that he will find his attention held spell-bound, from the time he begins until he has finished the little volume. We think the work cannot fail to meet with an extensive sale."

"This is a Narrative of intense interest. The author is well known as a powerful speaker, keen in debate, shrewd in argument, and dangerous in retort. He here shows an equally ready command of the pen, and has produced a book which would do credit to a practiced writer. No stronger proof of the absurdity of slavery can be demanded than this little history. By appealing to the sense of justice and the feeling of sympathy in this artless record of a noble struggle with oppression and outrage. Mr Bibb will make an impression on many readers, who would not be reached by more elaborate statements. His book has the attraction of a romance, though there was no romance in his sufferings. They were matter of fact realities of the sternest kind."

"After waiting several weeks, we have received a copy of this little work. It is certainly one of the most interesting and thrilling narratives of slavery ever laid before the American people. The exposure which the author makes of the horrors of slavery—the separations—the whippings. and the accumulated outrages iflicteed on the slave, must stir the blood of every reader who hss the pulsations of a man. The description of the