Josiah Henson was born in Charles County, on July 15th, 1789. Born into slavery, Josiah worked for the same man his mother did, until he saved enough money to buy his freedom. Once he presented the $450 he had saved over the years, he found that the cost had been raised. Enraged Josiah fled his home, and into Kent County in 1830. There he settled and founded a laborers school for fugative slaves. Later he, his wife and his four children moved into upper Canada where the law in Ontario was passed making slavery more difficult to have. Josiah Henson died of natural causes in 1883 at the age of 93.
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