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100 1 $aBrock, Jared.
245 14$aThe road to dawn :$bJosiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War /$cJared A. Brock.
246 30$aJosiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bPublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group,$c2018.
300 $axvi, 287 p., 8 p. of plates :$bill., map ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPort Tobacco -- The wounded leader -- Kentucky bound -- Double cross -- Murder and providence -- The great escape -- The struggle for life -- The great exhibition -- The real Uncle Tom -- Homecoming -- Epilogue.
520 $aThe Road to Dawn tells the improbable story of Josiah Henson, a slave who spent forty-two years in pre-Civil War bondage in the American South and eventually escaped with his wife and four young children, travelling 600 miles and eventually settling with his family as a free man across the border in Canada. Once there, Henson rescued 118 more slaves and purchased land to build what would become one of the final stops on the Underground Railroad, a 500- person freeman settlement called Dawn. He was immortalized by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
600 10$aHenson, Josiah,$d1789-1883.
650 0$aSlaves$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aAfrican Americans$vBiography.
650 0$aFugitive slaves$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aFugitive slaves$zCanada$vBiography.
650 0$aBlacks$zCanada$vBiography.
650 0$aClergy$zCanada$vBiography.