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

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Born into slavery on a Maryland farm, Josiah Henson (1789–1883) worked as a foreman, married, and turned into a preacher within the Methodist Episcopal Church. Faced with the chance of separation from his circle of relatives, Henson fled together with his wife and children to Ontario, where he turned into a leader within the Afro-Canadian community. The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself first gave the impression 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 shop for his freedom. Risking starvation, exposure, and recapture, the Henson circle of relatives walked from Kentucky to Ohio. Native Americans assisted the struggling circle of relatives, 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, they usually offer up to date readers an authentic account of one circle of relatives’s overcome injustice and inhumanity.

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