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The Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery

  • Written by Susanna Ashton, Professor of English, Clemson University
imageIn this drawing from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' a Black child is taken from his mother by a white man.Culture Club/Getty Images

In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton.

But instead of living a life as a slave, he escaped bondage and became an influential...

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