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Only Authorized ed. |
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1 online resource (226 pages) |
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| Summary |
Josiah Henson was born into slavery in Maryland in 1789, and¡eventually escaped to Canada in 1830, where¡he¡became a Methodist preacher¡and founded a trade¡school and community for fugitive slaves, called The Dawn Settlement. In 1849, Henson published his original autobiography, which helped in part to inspire the story and¡characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin. When Henson republished this expanded and updated¡edition of his autobiography in 1876, Beecher Stowe provided the preface. |
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Biography & Autobiography.
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896, author.
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Sturge, George, editor.
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Morley, S. (Samuel), editor.
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Lobb, John, 1840-1921, editor.
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