Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson

'Uncle Tom's Story of His Life' is a slave narrative written by Josiah Henson, who would later become famous for being the basis of the title character from Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The narrative provides a detailed description of his life as a slave in the south. Josiah Henson (1789-1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, 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, Upper Canada, of British Canada. Contents: My Birth and ChildhoodMy First Great TrialMy Boyhood and YouthMy ConversionMaimed for LifeA Responsible JourneyA New HomeReturn to MarylandTaken South, Away From Wife and ChildrenA Terrible TemptationProvidential DeliveranceEscape From BondageJourney to CanadaNew Scenes and a New HomeLife in CanadaConducting Slaves to CanadaSecond Journey on the Underground RailroadHome at DawnLumbering OperationsVisit to EnglandThe World's Fair in LondonVisits to the Ragged SchoolsClosing Up My London Agency