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(NARRATIVES.) HENSON, JOSIAH. Wirklische Lebensgeschichte des Unkels Tom in Frau Beecher-Stowe's 'Onkel Tom's Hutte" [The Real Life Story of Uncle Tom from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin]. Frontispiece portrait of Henson. 208 pages, small 8vo, original gilt and blind-stamped decorative cloth. Cincinnati: Verlag von Hitchcock and Walden, 1878
rare, authorized german language edition. oclc locates only 2 copies: nypl and the german society of pennsylvania. Henson (1789-1883) was born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland. He escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County. His narrative first appeared in 1849, 'The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, now a Resident of Canada. .' Another edition, 'Truth Stranger Than Fiction' came out in 1853, on the heels of Harriet Beecher Stowe's hit novel, and was reprised in 1876. It was from the latter edition that this translation was made.
