Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is an
open-air museum and
African American history centre near
Dresden, Ontario,
Canada, that includes the home of
Josiah Henson, a former
slave,
author,
abolitionist, and
minister, who, through his 1849 autobiography
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself, was the inspiration for
Harriet Beecher Stowe's title character in her novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin. The complex is part of the original of land purchased in 1841 to establish the Dawn Settlement, a community for escaped slaves.