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Title Statement | The road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War / Jared A. Brock. |
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Author | Brock, Jared |
Publication | New York: PublicAffairs,2018. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | xvi, 287 pages |
ISBN | 1541773926 9781541773929 |
Other Number | 3356808 |
General Notes | "BBS". |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses. |
Summary | Recounts the story of Josiah Henson, a slave who spent forty-one years in bondage before escaping with his family to Upper Canada. He founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County, Upper Canada. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Slaves--Biography--United States |
African Americans--Biography | |
Fugitive slaves--Biography--United States | |
Fugitive slaves--Biography--Canada | |
Blacks--Biography--Canada | |
Clergy--Biography--Canada | |
By Name | Henson, Josiah,1789-1883 |