The Life of Josiah Henson An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom
The Life of Josiah Henson An Inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom
- ISBN 13:
9780486800455
- ISBN 10:
0486800458
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 01/14/2016
- Publisher: Dover Publications
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Summary
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.