Henson, Josiah

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Josiah Henson
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    Black
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    Occupation
    Clergy
    Relation to Slavery
    Slave or Former Slave

    Josiah Henson (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    Henson's life story is that of a daring early leader of slaves and escaped slaves, a man of high moral principles who endured great suffering. Although the British American Institute was small and unsuccessful, Henson's work as an ambassador to England for African Americans did much for their perception overseas. His greatest achievement was the example he offered of a man born into slavery, illiterate and handicapped by vicious physical abuse, who gained his freedom, learned to read, and became a preacher and a leader of a community of escaped slaves.
    Elizabeth Zoe Vicary, "Henson, Josiah," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00325.html.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Tanser, H. A. "Josiah Henson, the Moses of His People." Journal of Negro Education 12, no. 4 (Autumn 1943): 630-632. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Henson, Josiah," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5875.