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Subject: Excerpt Of History
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:56:00 EDT
Oct. 28,1830
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Dresden Ontario - Josiah Henson 1789-1883 arrives in Upper Canada from
Maryland with his wife (in the picture) and four children on the Underground
Railway. The escaped American slave becomes pastor of a local church and starts a
technical school. He is the model for the hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe's
famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book that Abraham Lincoln said started the
US Civil War.
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