TY - BOOK AU - Henson,Josiah AU - Eliot,Samuel Atkins TI - The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada AV - E300 PY - 2016/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography KW - African Americans -- Biography KW - Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography KW - Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883 KW - Fugitive slaves -- Canada -- Biography KW - Black people -- Canada -- Biography KW - Clergy -- Canada -- Biography N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Josiah_Henson,_Formerly_a_Slave,_Now_an_Inhabitant_of_Canada,_as_Narrated_by_Himself; Release date is 2016-11-26; Produced by Cindy Horton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada" by Josiah Henson is a slave narrative published in 1849. Dictated to Samuel A. Eliot, this memoir recounts Henson's experiences from childhood through enslavement in Maryland. Born in 1789, Henson witnesses his family's brutal separation and endures plantation life under harsh conditions. A transformative religious awakening reshapes his understanding of his own worth. The narrative would later inspire Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," bringing Henson's story to international attention. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53609 ER -