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          Josiah Henson

          American abolitionist and minister

          For the American wrestler, see Josiah Henson (wrestler).

          Josiah Henson (June 15, – May 5, ) was an author, abolitionist, and minister.

          Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in , and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden, in Kent County, Upper Canada, of Ontario.

          Henson's autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (), is believed to have inspired the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin ().[1] Following the success of Stowe's novel, Henson issued an expanded version of his memoir in , Truth Stranger Than Fiction.

          Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (published Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, ). Interest in his life continued, and nearly two decades later, his life story was updated and publishe