Meat was not a part of our regular food; but my master had plenty of sheep and pigs, and sometimes I have picked out the best one I could find in the flock, or the drove, carried it a mile or two into the woods, slaughtered it, cut it up, and distributed it among the poor creatures, to whom it was at once food, luxury, and medicine. And sometimes, when I have seen them starved, and miserable, and unable to help themselves, I have helped them to some of the comforts which they were denied by him who owned them, and which my companions had not the wit or the daring to procure. In 1849, Josiah Henson released his autobiography, ‘The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself’, through Arthur D. Phelps in Boston, Massachusetts. A portrait of Josiah Henson.
Josiah Henson ("Uncle Tom"): From 1789 to 1881 life of josiah henson. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Rev Josiah Henson (15 Jun 1789–5 May 1883), Find a Grave Memorial no. In consequence of his decease, it became necessary to sell the estate and the slaves, in order to divide the property among the heirs; and we were all put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder, and scattered over various parts of the country.
The principal food of those upon my master's plantation consisted of corn meal, and salt herrings; to which was added in summer a little buttermilk, and the few vegetables which each might raise for himself and his family, on the little piece of ground which was assigned to him for the purpose, called a truck patch.
Biography of Josiah Henson who was born a slave on 15th June, 1789 in Charles County, Maryland. In 1983 Henson became the first black person to be featured on a Canadian postage stamp. Such were the provisions for the daily toil of the slave.Your purchase helps support NPR programming. In these hovels were we penned at night, and fed by day; here were the children born, and the sick--neglected. A Radical History of the Underground RailroadThe cabin where Henson lived in what is now Bethesda, Md., was recently sold to the Maryland National Capital Parks and Planning Commission.
The objects I pursued, I must admit, were not just the same as theirs. Paperback. Ripley, Ohio's Role in the Underground RailroadI obtained great influence with my companions, as well by the superiority I showed in labor and in sport, as by the assistance I yielded them, and the favors I conferred upon them, from impulses which I cannot consider as wrong, though it was necessary for me to conceal sometimes the act as well as its motive.
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His mother pleaded with her new owner, Isaac Riley, and Riley agreed to 4.5 out of 5 stars 89. My mother, and her young family of three girls and three boys, of which I was the youngest, resided on this estate for two or three years, during which my only recollections are of being rather a pet of the doctor's, who thought I was a bright child, and of being much impressed with what I afterwards recognized as the deep piety and devotional feeling and habits of my mother. Our lodging was in log huts, of a single small room, with no other floor than the trodden earth, in which ten or a dozen persons--men, women, and children--might sleep, but which could not protect them from dampness and cold, nor permit the existence of the common decencies of life. He was, indeed, a man of good natural impulses, kind-hearted, liberal, and jovial. $7.53. The first, or breakfast, was taken at 12 o'clock, after laboring from daylight; and the other when the work of the remainder of the day was over.