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Author Brock, Jared, author.

Title The road to dawn : Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War / Jared A. Brock.

Publication Info. New York : PublicAffairs, [2018]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1855125~S1
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 Nichols Adult Biography  BIO HENSON    AVAILABLE
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Description xvi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-287).
Summary "The Road to Dawn tells the improbable story of Josiah Henson, a slave who spent forty-two years in pre-Civil War bondage in the American South and eventually escaped with his wife and four young children, travelling 600 miles and eventually settling with his family as a free man across the border in Canada. Once there, Henson rescued 118 more slaves and purchased land to build what would become one of the final stops on the Underground Railroad, a 500-person freeman settlement called Dawn. He was immortalized by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Fugitive slaves -- Canada -- Biography.
Black people -- Canada -- Biography.
Clergy -- Canada -- Biography.
Added Title Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War
ISBN 9781541773929 (hardcover)
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