Excerpt from Father Henson's Story of His Own Life The numerous friends of the author of this little work will need no greater recommend ation than his name to

Father Henson's Story of His Own Life is an autobiography by Josiah Henson. Henson was an author, abolitionist, and a minister who was born into slavery. He esc

Father Henson's Story of His Own Life is an autobiographical account of the life of Josiah Henson, an African American man who was born into slavery in Maryland

“The true story behind Uncle Tom’s Cabin . . . the real story of his escape is more moving, and more harrowing, than anything one could put in fiction.” �