Jim Henson (memorialist)

Jim Henson
Henson in 1888
Born
Maryland
NationalityCanadian
OccupationFarmer
Known forescaped slavery and dictated a memoir

Jim Henson was an African man who was enslaved in Maryland, U.S. Henson escaped slavery, and made his way to Canada, where his slave narrative, entitled Broken Shackles, was published in 1889.

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