AS NARRATED BY HIMSELF. BOSTON: ARTHUR D. PHELPS. 1849. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by Arthur D. Phelps , in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY BOLLES AND HOUGHTON....

The following memoir was written from the dictation of Josiah Henson . A portion of the story was told, which, when written, was read to him, that any errors of statement might be corrected. The substance of it, therefore, the facts, the reflections, and very often the words, are his; and little more than the structure of the sentences belongs to another. The narrative, in this form, necessarily loses the attraction derived from the earnest manner, the natural eloquence of a man who tells a stor

I was born, June 15, 1789, in Charles County, Maryland, on a farm belonging to Mr. Francis N., about a mile from Port Tobacco. My mother was the property of Dr. Josiah McP., but was hired by Mr. N., to whom my father belonged. The only incident I can remember, which occurred while my mother continued on N.’s farm, was the appearance of my father one day, with his head bloody and his back lacerated. He was in a state of great excitement, and though it was all a mystery to me at the age of three o