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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 |
