The Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery • SC Daily Gazette
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 30, 2024
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 anti-slavery lecturer and writer. He also had a key role in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s celebrated novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which historians have . . .
