The Life Of Josiah Henson, Formerly A Slave, Now An Inhabitant Of Canada, As Narrated By Himself

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Biographies & Memoirs

Henson, Josiah

Arts & Literature

Franklin Classics

Firsthand account by the man widely regarded as the person who provided much of the material for the revered character in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Henson recalls his childhood, forced separation from his wife and children, escape to Canada, role as "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, and meeting with Queen Victoria in England.

Autobiography of Josiah Henson: An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom (African American)

Community & Culture

Dover Publications

Born into slavery on a Maryland farm, Josiah Henson (1789–1883) worked as a foreman, married, and became a preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Faced with the prospect of separation from his family, Henson fled with his wife and children to Ontario, where he became a leader in the Afro-Canadian community. The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself first appeared in 1849. The book's avid readers included Harriet Beecher Stowe, who later acknowledged its influence on her own masterwork, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Henson's narrative recounts the circumstances of his bondage, his conversion to Christianity, and his fruitless attempts to buy his freedom. Risking starvation, exposure, and recapture, the Henson family walked from Kentucky to Ohio. Native Americans assisted the struggling family, as did sympathetic boatmen who ferried them across Lake Erie. Safely established as a tenant farmer and clergyman in a new country, Henson took an active role in organizing a self-sufficient community. His memoirs helped alert his contemporaries to the horrors and heartbreak of slavery, and they offer modern readers an authentic account of one family's triumph over injustice and inhumanity.

The Life of Josiah Henson: An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History)

An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson

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Wentworth Press

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The Life Of Josiah Henson: Formerly A Slave, Now An Inhabitant Of Canada (1849)

Kessinger Publishing

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The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada (Bibliolife Reproduction Series)

Eliot, Samuel Atkins

BiblioLife

This 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of many editions issued by British editor John Lobb, followed the original 1849 edition and a much-expanded 1858 version. The autobiography traces Henson's life from his birth into slavery in Maryland in 1789; his escape to Canada in 1830; his participation in the founding of the Dawn Settlement for fugitive slaves in Ontario; and his several trips to England to raise funds for the settlement. Henson, who in his later years toured as the model for the Uncle Tom of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, describes his meeting with Stowe in 1852 and draws parallels between the histories of other Uncle Tom's Cabin characters and his own acquaintances. While Stowe herself stressed that there was no single model for her title character, she called Henson a "parallel instance" for Uncle Tom in A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Reprinted multiple times in the United States and Britain in the nineteenth century and translated into several other languages, Henson's autobiography continues to reward readers with its descriptions not only of slave life in Maryland and Kentucky, but also of the business and educational ventures of escaped slaves in Ontario.A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings classic works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available in paperback and e-book formats. Selected and edited by Bryan Giemza, Director of the Southern Historical Collection, each book contains a short summary and is otherwise unaltered from the original publication. DocSouth Books provide affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.

Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson (Docsouth Books)

A DocSouth Books Edition: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library

A mong all the singular and interesting records to which the institution of American slavery has given rise, wo know of none more striking, more characteristic and instructive, than that of JOSIAH HENSON. Born a slave a slave in effect in a heathen land and under a heathen master, he grew up without Christian light or knowledge, and like the Gentiles spoken of by St. Paul, without the law did by nature the things that are written in the law. One sermon, one offer of salvation by Christ, was sufficient for him, as for the Ethiopian eunuch, to make him at once a believer from the heart and a preacher of Jesus.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

Father Henson's Story of His Own Life

Irvington Pub.

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The Life Of Josiah Henson, Formerly A Slave, Now An Inhabitant Of Canada, As Narrated By Himself

Autobiography of Josiah Henson: An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom (African American)

The Life of Josiah Henson: An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom (Dover Thrift Editions: Black History)

An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson

The Life Of Josiah Henson: Formerly A Slave, Now An Inhabitant Of Canada (1849)

The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada (Bibliolife Reproduction Series)

Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson (Docsouth Books)

Father Henson's Story of His Own Life

An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson

An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson