Josiah Henson
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josiah-henson-187-2468921
title:
Josiah Henson
text:
Josiah Henson was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden, in Kent County, Upper Canada, of Ontario. Henson's autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849), is believed to have inspired the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 185
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wiki
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description:
American activist and minister
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Henson
date created:
2003-06-15T15:30:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T06:31:45Z
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