
Shadow and Light
An Autobiography
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs(Author)
Bison Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
450 pages
978-0-8032-7050-3 (ISBN)
Description
Adventure, danger, romance-Mifflin W. Gibbs seemed to invite them in his determination to better himself. He staked out considerable success as an entrepreneur and public voice in the American West before moving on to other frontiers. In California, where he had gone to seek his fortune, he was politically active, protesting the poll tax, editing a newspaper, and generally speaking out. After exile in Canada, necessitated by his civil-rights agitation and the political climate, Gibbs returned to the United States in 1869-to Oberlin, Ohio, where he earned a degree in law. Then he went to Little Rock, Arkansas, serving as a judge until his appointment as U.S. Consul to Madagascar in 1897. Shadow and Light offers many historical sidelights-on the underground railroad young Gibbs knew first hand, the abolition movement, the Spanish-American War, and nineteenth-century race relations. Acting always on his concern for what he called "the progress of the race," Gibbs won the support and friendship of leaders as diverse as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.
Reviews / Votes
"M. W. Gibbs recalls a life of myriad transformations-from a youth of poverty to success in gold rush California to election as the first black municipal judge in America to service as the American consul to Madagascar. And Gibbs tells it all with verve and candor. It is an autobiography worthy of its subject-and just as much worth reading today as when it was first published in 1902."-Tom W. DillardMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Nebraska
United States
Publishing group
University of Nebraska Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illus.
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-7050-3 (9780803270503)
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Introducing this Bison Books edition is Tom W. Dillard, director of the Arkansas Archives at the University of Central Arkansas, Conway.