# Truth Stranger Than Fiction

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- Authors: [Josiah Henson](https://www.bookquiver.com/josiah-henson)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2008-12-15

## Description

Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life stands as a remarkable narrative on its own merits, but even more significant is its relationship to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It is strange that the inspiration for a character whose name is a contemporary curse is based on an escaped slave, one-time soldier, preacher, founder of an independent black settlement, and slave-narrative writer. Unlike Stowe’s derivative character, Henson seized his freedom, made a life for himself in Canada, and freed fellow slaves before publishing his life story and taking the cause of the slaves and fugitives to England and before Queen Victoria herself.

## Editions

### Truth Stranger Than Fiction

- Publisher: bookannex
- ISBN: 978-14-3510-838-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2008-12-15
- Language: en_GB