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An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson ('Uncle Tom')

Autobiography published in 1881 by ex-fugitive slave Josiah Henson, reportedly the inspiration for the fictional character Uncle Tom; with prefaces by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wendell Phillips, and others. Digitized by Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina.

The link address is: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/henson81/menu.html

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The Project recently initiated a series of Antislavery Literature Teaching Guides based on its digital editions and videos. The series includes Teaching Guides to the slave narratives of Jeffrey Brace and Boston King; the rhetoric of white abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright; and early African American antislavery sermons.
 
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