MIKE RICHMAN
Journalist, Author, Biographer, Editor

Uncle Tom’s Montgomery County Cabin

Josiah Henson Museum and Park is in Montgomery County, Maryland. The museum strives to accurately portray Henson’s life and the Maryland slave experience as well as to explore the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Josiah Henson Museum and Park is in Montgomery County, Maryland. The museum strives to accurately portray Henson’s life and the Maryland slave experience as well as to explore the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

In this article, Mike Richman explores the life of Josiah Henson, a slave who lived in a log cabin on a plantation in Montgomery County, Maryland. Henson eventually became the model for “Uncle Tom” in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous book, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The book intensified North-South antagonism prior to the Civil War and helped spark the war in 1861.

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