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	Josiah Henson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henson was separated from his family as a young boy when he was sold as a young boy as property in an estate sale.
		Henson rose in the eyes of his owners and was eventually entrusted as the supervisor of his master's farm located in Montgomery County, Maryland in what is now Bethesda.
		Henson also became an active Methodist preacher, spoke as an abolitionist on lecture tour circuits throughout Britain and British North America, and worked as a some-time conductor on the Underground Railroad along routes between Tennessee and Ontario.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josiah_Henson (304 words)

	Josiah Henson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was born into (The practice of owning slaves) slavery in (Click link for more info and facts about Charles County, Maryland) Charles County, Maryland.
		Henson's autobiography is believed to have inspired (United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)) Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, (Click link for more info and facts about Uncle Tom's Cabin) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
		Josiah Henson is the first (A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)) fl person to be featured on a Canadian stamp.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Jo/Josiah_Henson.htm (191 words)

	Matthew Henson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On April 6, 1988 Henson was reinterred in Arlington National Cemetery near Peary's monument.
		Matthew Henson is the great-grand nephew of Josiah Henson, a famous fugitive slave.
		The Matthew Henson Earth Conservation Center in Washington, DC is named for him, as is Matthew Henson Middle School in Indian Head, Maryland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Henson (202 words)

	Josiah Henson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Henson, early on in life was shown the cruelty and brutality of slavery.
		Henson’s life was recorded in a book titled, "The Life of Josiah Henson, Formally a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada." It is from this book, many believe that American Author Harriet Beecher Stowe, got the basis for her popular novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin."
		Josiah Henson was active until his death, lecturing throughout Canada and the United States.
	www.bccns.com /josiah.htm (269 words)

	"Josiah Henson, The Original Uncle Tom" by Tony Leather
		One in particular was this same Josiah Henson, whom she met in Boston, and on whose own harrowing tale of slavery - his "The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself", published in 1849 - much of her own book was to be based.
		This is the unsung heroism of Josiah Henson, selflessly devoting his "free" life to the freedom of his peers, and refusing to go quietly into retirement.
		Josiah Henson passed away in 1883, at the age of ninety-four, having lived an early life that few of those alive today would wish to emulate.
	www.kudzumonthly.com /kudzu/dec01/Josiah_Henson.html (1769 words)

	Hartgrove, The Story of Josiah Benson
		The Henson family was then scattered throughout the country and worst, of all Josiah was separated from his mother, notwithstanding his mother”s earnest entreaty that her new master, Isaac Riley, should also purchase her baby.
		Henson said: “Under the influence of these impressions, and seeing that the allurements of the crowd were producing a manifest effect, I sternly assumed the captain, and ordered the boat to be pushed off into the stream.
		Henson agreed to do so and in the meantime went forty or fifty miles into Bourbon County in the interior of Kentucky in quest of a large party of Negroes who were said to be ready to escape.
	www.dinsdoc.com /hartgrove-1.htm (7356 words)

	OBHO: Josiah Henson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Josiah Henson would remain enslaved for the next 45 years of his life.
		Josiah became a historical figure in the white and African Communities of Canada.
		The death of Josiah Henson was on Canadian soil in 1877.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /obho/people/historical_personalities/humanrights/henson_josiah.html (282 words)

	Travel Video Television News
		Josiah Henson, the model for Uncle Tom, was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal church who, with his wife and four children, escaped from slavery in 1830, and spent six weeks on a journey to freedom in Canada.
		When Henson was a small child, he saw his family separated and always remembered the tears his mother shed when his brothers and sisters were literally torn from her arms.
		Henson was considered by many to be the most important fugitive slave of his time, and his life story, as retold in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," opened the eyes of many around the world to the tragedy of slavery.
	travelvideo.tv /news/more.php?id=4182_0_1_0_M (874 words)

	Josiah_Henson's BlackPlanet.com Personal Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Josiah Henson was born a slave on 15th June, 1789 in Charles County, Maryland.
		His autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson (1849) was read by Harriet Beecher Stowe and inspired her best-selling novel, Uncle Tom`s Cabin.
		In his autobiography, Josiah Henson described how as a child he saw his father punished for attempting to protect his wife against the plantation overseer.
	members.blackplanet.com /Josiah_Henson (791 words)

	Uncle Tom's Cabin :: The Black Voice News :: Serving the Inland Empire for 30 years
		Josiah Henson’s father was beaten and his ear was cut off when he struck an overseer after he brutally assaulted his mother.
		Henson was growing-up without religious instruction and one day at a camp meeting he was electrified.
		Henson writes that he was urged by those he met on the way to kill the young master Amos, but when he took the ax in hand to do the deed he couldn’t because he was a devout Christian.
	www.blackvoicenews.com /modules.php?file=article&name=News&op=modload&sid=41 (936 words)

	Date line, Time Line, Chronology of Henson's life
		Henson Gletscher/Glacier (82 degrees, 20 minutes North, 40 degrees, 00 minutes West) in North Greenland is named as a tribute to Matthew Henson by Lauge Kock, a Danish geologist who made an aerial expedition of northern Greenland.
		Henson is commended at the White House by the President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, for his significant contributions to the success of the discovery of the North Pole.
		Henson dies in New York City from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 88, survived by his wife, Lucy Ross Henson.
	www.matthewhenson.com /chronology.htm (1976 words)

	Pathways to Freedom \| Eyewitness to History
		Josiah Henson was born a slave in 1789 in Charles County, Maryland.
		Josiah Henson was an inspiration for the character of Uncle Tom.
		What Henson's mother did when she found out her new owner was going to purchase only her and none of her children.
	pathways.thinkport.org /eyewitness/hensonintro.cfm (151 words)

	Luxmanor Citizens Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Josiah Henson was born in Charles County, Maryland and at age 6 was sold at an auction to a man named Robb who was a tavern keeper near the Montgomery County courthouse in Rockville.
		Josiah's mother was sold to George Riley who lived in the oldest house in Luxmanor along Old Georgetown Road (11420).
		When Josiah Henson became ill after separation from his mother, Robb made a deal to sell the boy to George Riley where he grew up to be the strongest and brightest slave on Riley's farm.
	www.luxmanor.org /history.html (535 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Henson died in 1883 at 94 after publishing memoirs in 1849, 1858 and 1877 that provided some of the best narratives of slave life in American history.
		Henson was born in 1789 in Port Tobacco in Charles County, Md., and sold as a child, separate from his mother, to Adam Robb, a tavern keeper near the Montgomery County Courthouse in Rockville.
		Henson once wrote that a "tyrannical, barbarous" man named Bryce Litton got the better of Riley during a fight at a local tavern and that Riley called on Henson to rescue him.
	www.innercity.org /columbiaheights/newspaper/cabin.html (1690 words)

	Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul by Fergus Bordewich
		Even after years of freedom, Henson would remember the doctor as a "liberal, jovial" man of kind impulses, and he might well have lived out his life in passive oblivion as a slave had not it been for another stroke of fate that abruptly changed his life yet again.
		One morning, when Henson was still a small child, McPherson was found drowned in a stream, having apparently fallen from his horse the night before in a drunken stupor.
		The memory of this event remained engraved in Josiah's memory until the end of his life: the huddled group of anxious slaves, the crowd of bidders, the clinical examining of muscles and teeth, his mother's raw fear.
	www.antiquequiltdating.com /BoundForCanaan.html (1578 words)

	Henson's 1849 Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After the Civil War, Henson and his supporters parlayed these Stowe connections into the claim that he was Uncle Tom -- that Stowe had based her hero directly on Henson's character and the stories he told her about slavery.
		that appeared as a preface to the text explains, the autobiography was "written from the [Henson's] dictation." Henson's ghost writer was Samuel A. Eliot, a former mayor of Boston.
		There Henson decides to escape to freedom, although it takes some time to convince his wife to accompany him along with their four children.
	www.iath.virginia.edu /utc/abolitn/henson49hp.html (486 words)

	JOSIAH HENSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Josiah Henson was born into slavery on a plantation in Charles County, Maryland on June 15, 1789.
		Josiah's earliest tasks were to hold a horse and plough, weed row after row of corn and carry water to the field hands.
		While Josiah was fond of success, fame and prestige, he continued to focus on improving the lives the people in Canada's Black community.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_tourism/88635 (939 words)

	African American Registry: Josiah Henson, a true abolitionist
		During his time in Canada, Josiah Henson started the Dawn Institute in Chatham, Ontario, a refuge for fugitive slaves where they were taught trades to support themselves and their families.
		When Henson went to the World's Fair in London, he became the first ex-slave to be granted an audience with Queen Victoria.
		Josiah Henson was a true hero and humanitarian during the time of the Emancipation Proclamation.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/954/Josiah_Henson_a_true_abolitionist (294 words)

	Josiah Henson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Josiah Henson was born a slave in Charles County, Maryland.
		By watching the actionsof the other slaves, Henson soon learned that if he was loyal and provideddiligent service to his master, he would not get into very much trouble andhe might even become fairly successful.
		Henson went to England and made speeches and lectures of his life as "Uncle Tom," the slave.
	library.thinkquest.org /3337/jhenson.html (232 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Josiah Henson, born in Rocksville, Maryland in 1789, was the escaped slave immortalized as Uncle Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous abolitionist study.
		Henson was sold at an auction at an early age, and transferred to many masters until he managed to escape in 1830.
		Henson's response was "The University of Adversity." Two years prior, he had met Mrs.
	www.newcommunity.org /clarion/sept97/articles/p6-1.html (379 words)

	Discovering the "Real" Cabin of <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i>
		In an 1879 autobiography, Henson told how a master kicked at his mother as she fell on her knees begging him not to separate her from her children.
		Henson wrote: "His cries grew fainter and fainter, till a feeble groan was the only response to his final blows.
		Even so, his actions embody Josiah Henson's message that with freedom, determination, and an indomitable spirit, it is possible to stand on top of the world.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2005/02/0225_050223_ngm_uncletom2_2.html (468 words)

	Unit 3: Fugitives for Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Josiah Henson was born a slave in Maryland on June 15, 1789.
		Henson has been described as "a Canadian pioneer in adult education." The school known as the British American Institute, which he was most instrumental in establishing at Dawn (Dresden), Ontario, "anticipated by nearly three quarters of a century the first Canadian system of technical training."
		Located at Dresden, Henson's home, known as Uncle Tom's Cabin, is now a museum with displays that illustrate various aspects of the life led by nineteenth-century Blacks in that area.
	www.qesn.meq.gouv.qc.ca /mpages/unit3/u3p53.htm (219 words)

	THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Josiah Henson arrived on Canadian soil, with his wife and four of his children, on October 28, 1830.
		Invited to a convention in 1838, Henson argued successfully that available English monies (from charities and abolitionist groups) should be put towards the establishment of The British-American Institute, of which Dawn became a chapter.
		Josiah Henson—born in 1789, a slave, in Maryland, U.S.A. He escaped to Canada and freedom in 1830.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /freedom/page19.htm (404 words)

	Josiah Henson
		Josiah Henson spent thirty years on a plantation in Montgomery County, Maryland before he escaped slavery and became a Methodist preacher, abolitionist, lecturer, and founder of a cooperative colony of former slaves in Canada.
		Henson describes his father's reaction to an overseer's attempt to molest his mother.
		I was born June 15th, 1789, in Charles County, Maryland, on a farm belonging to Mr.
	www.aalbc.com /authors/josiah.htm (1532 words)

	April 29, 1853 FREDERICK DOUGLASS PAPER
		Henson is well known to both you and I, and what is said of him in Mrs.
		S.'s “Key,” as far as we are acquainted with the man, and even the opinion we might form of him from our knowledge of his character, we know, or at least believe, to be true to the letter.
		His son, Josiah Henson, Jr., is still in England, having accompanied his father there in the winter of 1850.
	www.accessible.com /accessible/text/freedom/00000464/00046462.htm (486 words)

	Niagara Falls Reporter
		Henson wrote, through a ghostwriter, a book called "The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Related by Himself." It was published in Boston in 1849.
		Henson later was able to gain funds by preaching at various places and was able to negotiate his sale from his master.
		Henson then decided to take his family to Canada, and made the arduous journey north to Ohio, where a lake captain offered to take him on his boat to Buffalo.
	www.niagarafallsreporter.com /kostoff45.html (826 words)

	Henson, Josiah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His father was brutally beaten and sold to the deep South for trying to protect Josiah´s mother from the overseer.
		As a young man, Josiah himself was so damaged by another overseer that he could never after lift his arms to his head.
		After Josiah and his sick wife and children escaped from their owner, Indians found them wandering around the wilderness of Ohio and Indiana.
	www.freedomcenter.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=8E26087A-ACDA-4D38-BFB386C2C063C246 (212 words)

	Chapter one: Dark CompanionTHE STORY OF MATTHEW HENSONby Bradley Robinson with Matthew Henson
		Matthew Henson could not remember his mother, for she had died in 1868 when he was two years old.
		Josiah Henson was born in Charles County, Maryland, and was a Negro overseer on the farm of Francis Newman near Port Tobacco, but no one accurately could say there was a blood tie between Lemuel and Josiah.
		Therefore it was not an unusual thing for Lemuel Henson to move his family shortly after his marriage to Nellie, out of the one room log hut that had been Matt’s birthplace and into a new two story frame house he had built himself.
	matthewhenson.com /chapter1.htm (4218 words)

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