A historic plantation is being turned into the Josiah Henson Museum in honor of the abolitionist and author whose life and works inspired the renowned novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The plantation, once ...

"Josiah Henson was born into slavery in La Plata, Maryland, and auctioned off as a child to pay his owner's debt. After numerous trials and abuse, he earned the trust of his slaveholder by exhibiting ...

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Nestled in the heart of Montgomery County sits an old plantation house where Josiah Henson, the muse for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” spent most of his life. The house is now a ...

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" summons visions of racial brutality in another place and time. But Uncle Tom's Cabin stands today in Rockville, shaded by a row of trees from the speedway that is Old Georgetown ...

The book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has often been labeled as the kindling wood of the Civil War. Written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was the child of a protestant preacher, it was originally ...

As many people across the nation celebrate the 100th anniversary of Black History Month — initially called Negro History Week when it began in 1926 — I came across a newspaper photo from the 1960s.