Josiah Henson
This file appears in: Uncle Tom Lived Here
This photograph of Josiah Henson was taken in the late 1870s. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
This file appears in: Uncle Tom Lived Here
Uncle Tom Lived Here
Historical Marker #1241 in Daviess County notes the location of the Riley family home place. The Rileys were the owners of Josiah Henson, a slave whom Harriet Beecher Stowe used to help model her main character in the famous novel "Uncle…