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“Life of Josiah Henson” talk by author Jamie Kuhns

October 8, 2019 @ 3:30 pm

Kensington Town Hall

Free

www.kensingtonhistory.org

KHS Meeting, Town Hall, Lower Level, 3710 Mitchell Street.

Come at 7:00 for Coffee, Cookies & Conversation & 7:30 Meeting.

October Speaker is Montgomery Parks Senior Historian Jamie F. Kuhns, author of “Sharp Flashes of Lightning Come from Black Clouds: The Life of Josiah Henson.”

Josiah Henson is known as a preacher, freedom-seeker and Underground Railroad conductor, an author, and abolitionist. Rev. Henson was enslaved on a plantation just off Old Georgetown Road at what is now the Josiah Henson Park. He was baptized near KenGar.

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October 8, 2019
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3:30 pm
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https://www.kensingtonhistory.org
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