Sold: Three-bedroom colonial, one acre, the real Uncle Tom's cabin

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Sold: Three-bedroom colonial, one acre, the real Uncle Tom's cabin

By Stephen Manning
ASSOCIATED PRESS

8:55 a.m. December 24, 2005



Associated Press
In the brisk Washington real estate market, the white colonial was an easy sale – three bedrooms, easy access to a major commuting route and an acre of land, a rarity in the tightly packed suburbs.


ROCKVILLE, Md. – In the brisk Washington real estate market, the white colonial was an easy sale – three bedrooms, easy access to a major commuting route and an acre of land, a rarity in the tightly packed suburbs.

However, the 18th-century house had one thing the McMansions could never claim – the original Uncle Tom's cabin.

Attached to the side is a small, one-room building, its walls made of graying split oak beams. A massive stone chimney rises at the back, above the large hearth where slaves once tended meals for a plantation owner.

Among the farm's slaves was Josiah Henson, the man whom Harriet Beecher Stowe used as a model for the Uncle Tom character in her 1852 novel on slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Less than a month after being put on the market for about $1 million, the cabin and the house are being purchased by Montgomery County.


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1. Slavery is the stain on American History that will never go away really.

It is good that this place is being preserved.

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2. And, the stain most ignored.

Most American whites believe that the Emancipation Proclamation wiped out 250 years of history and that the Civil Rights Act wiped out 350 years of history.

The effects of slavery don't just linger, they control the thinking and beliefs of most Americans. Despite the cute commercials showing happy Blacks enjoying the good life, racism is still prevalent throughout our society.

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3. You are right.

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Josiah HensonJosiah Henson was born a slave on 15th June, 1789 in Charles County, Maryland. ... His autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson (1849) was read by Harriet ...
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Josiah HensonJOSIAH HENSON: Josiah Henson spent thirty years on a plantation in ... Source: Josiah Henson, Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. ...
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African American Registry: Josiah Henson, a true abolitionist*This date marks the birth of Josiah Henson in 1789. He was an 18th century Black abolitionist.
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Uncle Tom's CabinA settlement at the end of the Underground Railway and the burial place of Rev.Josiah Henson, whose life was documented in the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
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Digital HistoryJosiah Henson describes his father's reaction to an overseer's attempt to ... Source: Josiah Henson, Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the ...
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Josiah Henson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJosiah Henson is the first black person to be featured on a Canadian stamp. ... Above Left a Photo of Josiah Henson taking in 1877 ...
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JOSIAH HENSONJOSIAH HENSON -. A historical marker stands on US 60 near Owensboro, Kentucky. It marks the former site of the Riley Plantation where Josiah Henson was a ...
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Josiah HensonJosiah Henson has been called "the most controversial former slave ever to make ... Henson’s life was recorded in a book titled, "The Life of Josiah Henson, ...
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OBHO: Josiah Hensonhelped to settle the Dawn Settlement near Dresden, Ontario.
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Pathways to Freedom | Eyewitness to HistoryJosiah Henson was born a slave in 1789 in Charles County, Maryland. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe read his autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson. ...
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