The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada

Name: The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada
Author: Josiah Henson

by Josiah Henson

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Cindy Horton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2016-11-26

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Public domain in the USA.

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Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography African Americans -- Biography Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883 Fugitive slaves -- Canada -- Biography Black people -- Canada -- Biography Clergy -- Canada -- Biography E300

About the author

Josiah Henson

1789–1883

Born into slavery in Maryland, he escaped to Canada and went on to become a powerful abolitionist voice, minister, and memoirist. His life story helped shape popular understanding of slavery and is often linked to the inspiration behind Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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