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Uncle Tom's Cabin inspiration - Steve - 08-07-2024 12:11 AM
Here's an interesting article about the life of John Andrew Jackson, the fugitive slave Harriet Beecher Stowe briefly hid in her home. An incident which helped inspire her to begin writing Uncle Tom's Cabin a few weeks later:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-black-fugitive-who-inspired-uncle-toms-cabin-and-helped-end-slavery-in-the-us-180984817/