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Monument in memory of Uncle Tom - Rev. Josiah Henson
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Monument in memory of Uncle Tom - Rev. Josiah Henson
Monument erected in memory of abolitionist, minister and author Rev. Josiah Henson - born into Slavery in 1789 in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborers school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden, in Kent County, Upper Canada, of British Canada. Hensons autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849), is believed to have inspired the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin (1852). Date: 1913
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