Shadow and light: an autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present c

by M W Gibbs

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (17 April 1823 - 11 July 1915) was an African-American attorney, judge, diplomat and banker. Born in Philadelphia, he moved to California as a young man during the California Gold Rush. Angered by discriminatory laws passed in 1858, he and several hundred American blacks moved that year to Victoria, British Columbia. Gibbs lived and worked there for ten years. After the American Civil War, Gibbs and many of the other black settlers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1522922857
• ISBN13: 9781522922858
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"