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Josiah Henson
author, abolitionist, and minister; born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles Co., Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 15 June 1789
- Died
- 5 May 1883
- Conflict
- Rebellions of 1837
- Place of birth
- Charles County
- Place of death
- Dresden
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Josiah
- Family name
- Henson
- Occupation
- autobiographer, abolitionist, preacher, military officer, slave, priest
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Religion
- Methodism
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, African American Leaders of Maryland: A Portrait Gallery, Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- notable work
- The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself
- place of burial
- Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History
- social classification
- slave
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