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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of
many editions issued by British editor John Lobb, followed the
original 1849 edition and a much-expanded 1858 version. The
autobiography traces Henson's life from his birth into slavery in
Maryland in 1789; his escape to Canada in 1830; his participation
in the founding of the Dawn Settlement for fugitive slaves in
Ontario; and his several trips to England to raise funds for the
settlement. Henson, who in his later years toured as the model for
the Uncle Tom of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, describes his
meeting with Stowe in 1852 and draws parallels between the
histories of other Uncle Tom's Cabin characters and his own
acquaintances. While Stowe herself stressed that there was no
single model for her title character, she called Henson a
""parallel instance"" for Uncle Tom in A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Reprinted multiple times in the United States and Britain in the
nineteenth century and translated into several other languages,
Henson's autobiography continues to reward readers with its
descriptions not only of slave life in Maryland and Kentucky, but
also of the business and educational ventures of escaped slaves in
Ontario. A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings
selected classic works from the digital library of Documenting the
American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest
digital technologies to make these works available as downloadable
e-books or print-on-demand publications. DocSouth Books are
unaltered from the original publication, providing affordable and
easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars,
students, and general readers.
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