Structure found in Md. may be linked to man who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’
Archaeologists have discovered what they think are remains of a barn or blacksmith workshop in North Bethesda that could date to the days of Josiah Henson, a former slave whose autobiography inspired the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
Looking for evidence of what slave life in Maryland was like, archaeologists with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission Montgomery Parks and the PBS program “Time Team America” began exploring the Josiah Henson Special Park on Monday. They found evidence of a buried foundation that may have existed in the late 1700s and early 1800s, when Henson worked on the homestead for landowner Isaac Riley.
It’s the Time Team thing, which I haven’t watched at all since the first couple.
