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Article: Cabin crisis.(Black History)(Uncle Tom's Cabin)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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Josiah Henson, an American slave, arrived in Canada in 1830, after a long and arduous journey. Ten years later, after moving to Dresden, Ontario, he set up a school He also gave lecture tours and wrote his autobiography, which was published in 1849. As it happened, Henson's story became source material in part for Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, a nineteenth-century bestseller and seminal work in the fight against slavery. Well, one thing led to another, and by the mid-twentieth century, the Henson homestead was a museum, then more recently Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site, a complex of buildings in Dresden that ...