Truth Stranger than Fiction: Father Henson's Story of his Own Life

Henson, Josiah;  Harriet Beecher Stowe

Boston: J.P. Jewett and Co, 1858

Bound in publisher's blind stamped brown cloth. xii, 212 p. Frontispiece portrait. Hardcover. Solid cover. Spine cocked. Some gatherings starting. Scattered spotting throughout.  Introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Henson was born in Charles County Maryland.  He escaped to Canada and established a school at the Dawn Settlement in Kent Co, Ontario.  Henson's life provided the inspiration for the titular character in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.  This is the expanded version of Henson's memoir, first published in 1849.  Henson worked on a plantation in what is now North Bethesda, Montgomery County, MD. A fascinating story of ante-bellum Maryland, the underground railroad, and the path to freedom in Canada.  Coleman 3058. Sabin 31433. (1st edition was titled, "The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself")