link available at https://www.germantownMDhistory.org Call in – 215-534-1739
7:30 pm
9:00 pm
A PowerPoint presentation via Zoom by author and historian Susan Cooke Soderberg,
based on her soon-to-be published book of the same name.
New research beyond his autobiographies has revealed a very different Josiah Henson than previously portrayed in earlier biographies or even in four of his autobiographies. By extensive investigation of primary resources and visiting the places where he lived and paths that he traveled from Maryland to Kentucky to New England and Canada, the author has discovered a complex man, dedicated to his family and his community, driven by his search for freedom and knowledge, encompassed by his Christian morality.
The title for the book comes from a speech Josiah Henson made in Scotland in 1877.
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