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Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar, 1823-1915 Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Centuries

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09937 Author/Creator: Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar, 1823-1915 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Book Date: 1902 Pagination: 1 v. : 372 p. : Order a Copy

One book entitled Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Centuries by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs with an introduction by Booker T. Washington dated 1902. An autobiography that 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. It also offers historical sidelights such as the underground railroad the author knew first hand. The book is broken into thirty three chapters.

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar, 1823-1915

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