Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
A London CDV photograph, 2-1/2” x 4” waste-up, facing slightly left in formal attire. The image is identified on the reverse, “Rev. Josiah Henson, better known as Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom", Published in the Christian Age Office, 79 Farmington Street, Bradshaw & Godart, successors to the London School of Photography, 103, Newgate Street, E.C., London.” Henson traveled to England in 1877 and was received by the Queen. This photograph was likely taken on that trip. Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Ontario, Canada in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County. At the time of his arrival, Ontario was known as the Province of Upper Canada (U.C.), becoming the Province of Canada in 1841, then Ontario in 1867, all within Henson's lifetime there. Henson's autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849), is widely believed to have inspired the character of the fugitive slave, George Harris, in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), who returned to Kentucky for his wife and escaped across the Ohio River, eventually to Canada.
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