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Henrietta Henkle Stephens (March 10, 1909-April 26, 1993) was an American novelist and historian who wrote under the name Henrietta Buckmaster. She is best known for her book about the Underground Railroad, Let My People Go (1941).

Buckmaster was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Rae D. Henkle, journalist and later foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and Pearl Wintermute Henkle. She began writing at an early age, publishing a story in Child Life at 12. She attended the Friends Seminary and the Brearley School.