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