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A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin

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John Andrew Jackson riding a galloping horse and tipping his hat.

How Do We Tell a Tale of People Who Sought to Disappear?

The life of John Andrew Jackson — and the vacillating richness and scarcity of the archive.

by Susanna Ashton via HNN on August 13, 2024

In this drawing from ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ a Black child is taken from his mother by a white man.

The Black Fugitive Who Inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the End of US Slavery

Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and writer.

by Susanna Ashton via The Conversation on July 17, 2024

Liberty holding an American flag with "For the Union" written on it.

Capturing the Civil War

The images, diaries, and ephemera in Grand Valley State University’s Civil War and Slavery Collection reveal the cold realities of Abraham Lincoln’s world.

by Susanna Ashton via JSTOR Daily on May 23, 2024

Building of the old Pendleton Farmers' Society.

Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on a South Carolina Post Office

The bonfire was a public spectacle for Black people, as well as any white dissenters. It was a calculated warning.

by Susanna Ashton via Southern Spaces on December 2, 2022

Portrait photograph of John B. Cade.

John B. Cade's Project to Document the Stories of the Formerly Enslaved

There are revelations in a newly digitized collection of slave narratives compiled by a professor and his students during the Great Depression.

by Susanna Ashton via JSTOR Daily on January 26, 2022

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