6. Shadow and Light

An autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present century, was published in 1902 by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gibbs was a carpenter by trade, and later became an activist in the abolition movement, shared a platform with the likes of Frederick Douglass, and assisted in the efforts of the Underground Railroad. Gibbs would later go on to become the first Black elected municipal judge in the United States and was named U.S. Consul in Madagascar for a term of four years.