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Title: Truth Stranger Than Fiction (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Author : Josiah Henson
Release Date : January 13, 2012
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 712 KB

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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life stands as a remarkable narrative on its own merits, but even more significant is its relationship to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It is strange that the inspiration for a character whose name is a contemporary curse is based on an escaped slave, one-time soldier, preacher, founder of an independent black settlement, and slave-narrative writer. Unlike Stowe’s derivative character, Henson seized his freedom, made a life for himself in Canada, and freed fellow slaves before publishing his life story and taking the cause of the slaves and fugitives to England and before Queen Victoria herself.