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Truth is stranger than fiction." An autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom") from 1789 to 1879

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This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

Collection Data

Names
Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1879
Place: Boston
Publisher: B.B. Russell & Company
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Rare 326.92-H
Topics
Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883
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Physical Description
Extent: Xxiv, 336 p. front. (port.) plates. 19 cm.
Engravings
Type of Resource
Still image
Text
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR5051173-B
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11673970
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): feeaf110-c6b2-012f-89a7-58d385a7bc34
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