Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he...
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The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself is a slave narrative written by Josiah Henson, who would...
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The Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History (French: Musée Josiah Henson l'histoire des Afro-Canadiens) is an open-air museum in Dresden, Ontario...
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Josiah "Joe" Henson (24 February 1922 – 4 April 2012) was an American freestyle wrestler and a career U.S. Navy officer. In 1952 he won the AAU wrestling...
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African Americans in Maryland (section Josiah Henson)
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". A descendant of Josiah Henson, Matthew Henson, was also from Southern Maryland and he was one of the first...
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sources. The best-known of these was Josiah Henson, an ex-slave whose autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of...
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slave narrative The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849). Henson, a formerly enslaved black...
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northwestern Prince George's County that also includes Montrose Road, Josiah Henson Memorial Parkway (née Montrose Parkway), and Cherry Hill Road, and forms...
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English metallurgist Josiah Henson (1789–1883), American author Josiah Henson (wrestler) (1922–2012), American wrestler Josiah Heyman (born 1958), American...
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the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) The Life of Josiah Henson (1849) Twelve Years a Slave (1853) My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)...
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