Josiah Henson

Harriet Beecher Stowe said that Josiah Henson’s life had inspired her most famous character. But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name.

Born into slavery, this preacher and Underground Railroad conductor served as the inspiration for a history-making book.

Before Stowe's famous novel, a formerly enslaved African-American living in Canada wrote a memoir detailing his experience.

June, PTSD Awareness month, is a time to recognize how trauma has shaped our history.

To fight against slavery, the author collected true stories then picked up a pen and distilled them into “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

Once a powerful voice in the Black press, Coleman all but disappeared from the literary landscape of the American Midwest after her death in 1948.