A top literary second: after being misplaced to historical past for greater than a century, The Street to Dawn uncovers the unbelievable tale of the true-existence slave who impressed Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
-He rescued 118 enslaved people
-He received a medal on the first Global’s Truthful in London
-Queen Victoria invited him to Windsor Castle
-Rutherford B. Hayes entertained him on the White House
-He helped get started a freeman payment, referred to as Daybreak, that was once referred to as one of the most ultimate stops on the Underground Railroad
-He was once immortalized in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the radical that Abraham Lincoln jokingly blamed for sparking the Civil War
But earlier than all this, Josiah Henson was once brutally enslaved for greater than 40 years.
Author-filmmaker Jared A. Brock retraces Henson’s 3,000+ mile adventure from slavery to freedom and re-introduces the sector to a forgotten determine of the Civil Warfare generation, in conjunction with his accompanying documentary narrated by means of Hollywood actor Danny Glover.
The Street to Daybreak is a flooring-breaking biography lauded by means of leaders on the NAACP, the Smithsonian, senators, authors, professors, the President of Mauritius, and the twenty first High Minister of Canada, and can for sure repair a hero of the abolitionist motion to his rightful position in historical past.
