biography
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| lived:
| (1789–1883)
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| biography:
| Social activist and minister, born in Charles Co, Maryland, USA. He was sold at auction at an early age and endured great hardships in slavery, but became a land superintendent and a Methodist preacher while still in slavery. He and his family escaped N to Canada (1830) and settled in Ontario, where he tried to develop a community for African-American escapees. It failed to attract a significant number, so he returned to the South and liberated other slaves. He told his story to Harriet Beecher Stowe and was the reputed original for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). He published his autobiography in 1849. He made three trips to England and was honoured by Queen Victoria (1876). |
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