NMLP P-035935 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself

Josiah Henson · Arthur D. Phelps (Boston) · 1849

This 1849 text predates Henson's story becoming associated with Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom after 1852, and it is considerably shorter than his later, expanded autobiographies

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035935 for "The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself" by Josiah Henson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035935, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).