Josiah Henson
American
Josiah Henson was an enslaved American and a basis for main character, Uncle Tom, in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. - AsNotedIn
Josiah Henson was an enslaved American and a basis for main character, Uncle Tom, in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1795/00/00 | Josiah Henson arrives at the Riley farm, five miles from Rockville, Maryland. | Bondage | Josiah Henson Museum and Park | North Bethesda | |||
| 1825/04/00 | Josiah Henson transports a group of fellow slaves to his master's brother, Amos Riley, in Daviess County, Kentucky. Although advised to escape to Ohio by absolutist, Josiah keeps his word, delivers his passengers and heads back to Maryland. | Life | Amos Riley Plantation Site | Maceo | |||
| 1828/09/00 | Josiah Henson dutifully returns to the Riley farm. Isaac Riley reclaims the pass that provide Henson safe travel to and from Kentucky. Henson watches as Matilda Riley places the pass in her husband's desk. "I heard the old prison-gate clang." - J Henson | Bondage | Josiah Henson Museum and Park | North Bethesda | |||
| 1829/00/00 | Isaac Riley's brother-in-law persuades him to manumit the Henson family. After meeting his family in Kentucky, Henson learns from his wife that Isaac Riley has nearly doubled the price of Henson family's emancipation. | Bondage | Amos Riley Plantation Site | Maceo | |||
| 1830/09/00 | Discovering that Isaac Riley plans to sell him in New Orleans, Louisiana, separating him from his wife and four children, Josiah Henson and his family begin their escape to Canada. | Bondage | Amos Riley Plantation Site | Maceo | |||
| 1830/10/00 | Traveling through Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and New York, Josiah Henson and his family arrive in Canada. | Recalled to Life | |||||
| 1849/00/00 | Josiah Henson chronicles his journey from slavery to freedom in his autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, published in Boston in early 1849 by Arthur D Phelps. | Author | |||||
| 1877/00/00 | By 1877, "The Life of Josiah Henson" reaches over a quarter of a million copies sold. | Author |