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As Stowe house reopens, there’s more to learn about ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ - Press Herald
In December 1850, John Andrew Jackson — who had escaped a plantation in South Carolina and was living in Massachusetts — showed up at the Brunswick home that Harriet Beecher Stowe and her ...
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The Black Fugitive Who Inspired 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and Helped End Slavery in the U.S. - Smithsonian Magazine
A few weeks after Harriet Beecher Stowe crossed paths with John Andrew Jackson, she began drafting Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson ...