![]() ![]() The slave trader offered the boy to Henson’s mother’s owner, an alcoholic gambler named Isaac Riley, for a bargain: free of charge if the young Henson died, a barter of some horseshoeing work if he survived.īut he did recover, and Henson and his mother were enslaved about 12 miles from Washington, D.C., on Riley’s plantation. Henson was later separated from his mother and sold to a child trafficker, but soon fell deathly ill. ![]() Buyīorn near Port Tobacco, Maryland, around 1789, Henson’s first memory was of his father being whipped, having his ear cut off, and sold south-all as punishment for striking a white man who had attempted to rape his wife. This sweeping biography immortalizes the man who was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in an epic tale of courage and bravery in the face of unimaginable trials. The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War ![]()
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