Josiah Henson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Josiah Henson

American activist and minister

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1789

Place of Birth: Charles County, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 03-May-1883

Profession: military officer, preacher, abolitionist, autobiographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Josiah Henson

  • Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister.
  • Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden, in Kent County, Upper Canada, of British Canada.
  • 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 Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).
  • Following the success of Stowe's novel, Henson issued an expanded version of his memoir in 1858, Truth Stranger Than Fiction.
  • Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (published Boston: John P.
  • Jewett & Company, 1858).
  • Interest in his life continued, and nearly two decades later, his life story was updated and published as Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev.
  • Josiah Henson (1876).

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