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Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic
Site commemorates the life of Reverend Josiah
Henson. Recognized for his contributions to the abolition
movement and for his work in the Underground Railroad, he rose to
international fame after Harriet Beecher Stowe acknowledged his memoirs as a
source for her 1852 anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
It was Henson's life experiences that inspired Ms. Stowe's creation of the
character Uncle Tom in her 1852 outcry against slavery. |
