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Josiah Henson was an American Black slave who was part of the underground railroad and escaped slavery into Upper Canada.he helped over two hundred slaves escape slavery and also
built a school for them.Josiah Henson
was also an author, abolitionist, and
minister.
Josiah Henson was born in slavery (June.15th. 1789) at Charles County, United States. He was born on a farm owned by Francis Newman. When Josiah was a little boy, his father was punished heavily for standing up to his owner about slavery. His father was later sold to someone in Alabama. A few years later following his owner death, Josiah and his family was sold to someone else named Isaac Riley. Josiah was then separated from his mother, brothers, and sisters. His mother pleaded to her new owner Isaac Riley to buy her son back.
Isaac agreed. Under one condition, that Josiah would have to work in the fields.Josiah worked hard and pleased his owner and he became the supervisor of his master's farm.The farm was located
in Montgomery County, Maryland (in now
what is now North Bethesda).
At the age of 22 Josiah was married to a
slave name Charlotte . As years passed
their family grew bigger and they had
four children.
After helping his owner Isaac Riley, Josiah was later sold to Mr.Amos Riley for free.Finding that Mr.Amos Riley not being an honest man also he wasn't giving the real property fair and being treated unpropitious (unfavorable). Josiah and his family decided to escape.They reached to Upper Canada via the Niagara River in 1830, with his wife Charlotte and their four children.Josiah used the North Star as a guide.They were all kept has refugees in Upper Canada. Has Upper Canada had became a refugee stay for the blacks after 1793.
At the age of 36 in 1825, Isaac Riley ( Josiah's new Owner) was sued by his brother in law. Desperate, he begged Josiah to help him. Josiah agreed .Isaac Riley told him that he needed to take 18 slaves to his brother who lived in Kentucky by foot. They arrived in Davies County Kentucky in the middle of April ,1825 at the plantation of Mr. Amos Riley(Isaac Riley's brother). In September 1828 Josiah and Isaac Riley brother returned to Maryland. His brother then helped Isaac Riley and he was free.
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Josiah Henson first worked at the farms near Fort Erie, then Waterloo.Through contacts of other back refugee, he was able to purchase 200 acres(0.81 km2) in Dawn Township. This was the time when he realized a true vision of a self-sufficient (needing no outside help in satisfying basic need) community he was in. That was when Henson became an active Methodist preacher( church/ religion preacher), and spoke as an abolitionist (a person who favors the abolition- destruction- of a practice or institution) on routes between Tennessee and Ontario. He also served in the Canadian army as a military officer, having led a Black military unit in the Rebellion(an act of violent or open resistance to an established government) of 1837.Later Josiah Henson and his wife continued to live in Dawn for the rest of their lives. Henson later died at the age of 93 in Dresden, on May 5, 1883.
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- Josiah had a family of 1 dad , 1 mom , 3 brothers and 2 sisters. Out of all of his siblings Josiah was the youngest.
- Josiah Mother and Father are not identified
- When Josiah was a little boy his father was sold to someone in Alabama and that was the last of him
-Josiah Henson was first married to a women named Charlotte, She died at 1852 (reason unknown)
-Josiah later family was 2 ( 1 after wife wife and 12 children