Horace B. Bibb

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Name
Horace B. Bibb
Given Name
Horace B.
Family Name
Bibb
Sex
Male
Occupation
Legal
Slave Trade
Description
Horace B. Bibb was a man, likely a lawyer, who was known to work with University of Virginia professor and white enslaver John Staige Davis in human trafficking and enslavement. A letter from Davis to "H. B. Bibb, Esq.," January 17, 1860, concerns Bibb's efforts to "to procure ... a suitable home" for an enslaved woman named Agnes on behalf of Davis and white enslaver Elizabeth Govan Hill. This letter is in the Papers of John Staige Davis, MSS 1912.

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1860-01-17, Agnes, Mention Event