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- Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: DocSouth Books
summary
This 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of many editions issued by British editor John Lobb, followed the original 1849 edition and a much-expanded 1858 version. The autobiography traces Henson's life from his birth into slavery in Maryland in 1789; his escape to Canada in 1830; his participation in the founding of the Dawn Settlement for fugitive slaves in Ontario; and his several trips to England to raise funds for the settlement. Henson, who in his later years toured as the model for the Uncle Tom of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, describes his meeting with Stowe in 1852 and draws parallels between the histories of other Uncle Tom's Cabin characters and his own acquaintances. While Stowe herself stressed that there was no single model for her title character, she called Henson a "parallel instance" for Uncle Tom in A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Reprinted multiple times in the United States and Britain in the nineteenth century and translated into several other languages, Henson's autobiography continues to reward readers with its descriptions not only of slave life in Maryland and Kentucky, but also of the business and educational ventures of escaped slaves in Ontario.
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A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings classic works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available in paperback and e-book formats. Each book contains a short summary and is otherwise unaltered from the original publication. DocSouth Books provide affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.
Table of Contents
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- Introductory Note
- p. 15
- Chapter II
- pp. 25-27
- Chapter III
- pp. 28-31
- Chapter IV
- pp. 32-35
- Chapter VI
- pp. 41-46
- Chapter VII
- pp. 47-51
- Chapter VIII
- pp. 52-56
- Chapter IX
- pp. 57-59
- Chapter XI
- pp. 63-66
- Chapter XII
- pp. 67-71
- Chapter XIII
- pp. 72-77
- Chapter XIV
- pp. 78-82
- Chapter XV
- pp. 83-85
- Chapter XVI
- pp. 86-88
- Chapter XVII
- pp. 89-94
- Chapter XVIII
- pp. 95-98
- Chapter XIX
- pp. 99-101
- Chapter XX
- pp. 102-105
- Chapter XXI
- pp. 106-108
- Chapter XXII
- pp. 109-112
- Chapter XXIII
- pp. 113-115
- Chapter XXIV
- pp. 116-118
- Chapter XXV
- pp. 119-123
- Chapter XXVI
- pp. 124-129
- Chapter XXVII
- pp. 130-132
- Chapter XXVIII
- pp. 133-139
- Chapter XXIX
- pp. 140-146
- Chapter XXX
- pp. 147-151
- Chapter XXXI
- pp. 152-158
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469602899
Related ISBN(s)
9780807869611, 9780807869628, 9798890843289
MARC Record
OCLC
769189684
Pages
184
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No