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Truth stranger than fiction : Father Henson's story of his own life
- Title
- Truth stranger than fiction : Father Henson's story of his own life / with an introduction by Mrs. H.B. Stowe.
- Author
- Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883.
- Publication
- Boston : John P. Jewett and Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Henry P.B. Jewett, 1858.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xii, 212 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 20 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Slave narratives.
- Note
- "Lithotyped by Cowles and Company, 17 Washington Street, Boston. Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery"--t.p. verso.
- "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858, by John P. Jewett and Company, in the clerk's office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts."--copyright statement, t.p. verso.
- Frontispiece portrait signed: Engraved by F.O. Freeman. Boston.
- First published in 1849 under title: The life of Josiah Henson.
- Indexed In (note)
- Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
- Provenance (note)
- is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- My birth and childhood -- My first great trial -- My boyhood and youth -- My conversion -- Maimed for life -- A responsible journey -- A new home -- Return to Maryland -- Taken south, away from wife and children -- A terrible temptation -- Providential deliverance -- Escape from bondage -- Journey to Canada -- New scenes and a new home -- Life in Canada -- Conducting slaves to Canada -- Second journey on the Underground Railroad -- Home at dawn -- Lumbering operations -- Visit to England -- The World's Fair in London -- Visits to the ragged schools -- Closing up my London agency -- Closing chapter.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare 326.92-H (Henson, J. Truth stranger than fiction. 1858)
- OCLC
- 26341170
- NYPGR26341170-B
- Author
- Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883.
- Title
- Truth stranger than fiction : Father Henson's story of his own life / with an introduction by Mrs. H.B. Stowe.
- Imprint
- Boston : John P. Jewett and Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Henry P.B. Jewett, 1858.
- Indexed In:
- Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 4735
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc Rare 326.92-H (accession no. B526403) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Local Note
- Researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-1438 or to the electronic resource.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- African American abolitionists.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.John P. Jewett and Company (Boston, Mass.), publisher.Jewett, Henry P. B., publisher.Cowles & Company, lithographer.Geo. C. Rand & Avery, printer.Freeman, Francis O., engraver.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare 326.92-H (Henson, J. Truth stranger than fiction. 1858)