Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into #slavery in Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer’s school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County. Henson’s autobiography, The Life of Josiah […]

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